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One-step continuous synthesis of biocompatible gold nanorods for optical coherence tomography
Víctor Sebastián1, Seung-Kon Lee, Chao Zhou
1Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|May 29, 2012
Abstract:
We present a novel one-step flow process to synthesize biocompatible gold nanorods with tunable absorption and biocompatible surface ligands. Photothermal optical coherence tomography (OCT) of human breast tissue is successfully demonstrated using tailored gold nanorods designed to have strong absorption in the near-infrared range.
