Nanotechnology for biomedical imaging and diagnostics :

Imaging with nanoparticles in medicine : historical perspective / Mikhail Berezin -- Iron oxide-based magnetic nanoparticles synthesized from organic solution phase for advanced biological imaging / Sen Zhang, Shouheng Sun -- Lipid-based pharmaceutical nanocarriers for imaging applications / Tamer Elbayoumi and Vladimir Torchilin -- Design and structure of soft polymer nanocapsules / Sergey Dergunov and Eugene Pinkhassik -- Nanoparticles as optoacoustic contrast agents / Alexander A. Oraevsky and Anton Liopo -- Nanoparticles for bioimaging : analytical characterization and measurements / Kate Nelson, Monica Shokeen, Patrick Winter, Mikhail Berezin -- Radiolabeled nanoparticles for biomedical imaging / Tolulope Aweda, Deborah Sultan, Yongjian Liu -- MRI with gadolinium-based nanoparticles / F. Gurard, G.L. Ray and M.W. Brechbiel -- In vivo molecular fluorescence imaging / Yasaman Ardeshirpour, Victor Chernomordik, Moinuddin Hassan, Dan Sackett, Amir Gandjbakhche -- Photoacoustic and ultrasound imaging with nanosized contrast agents / Mansik Jeon and Chulhong Kim -- Surface enhanced raman scattering-based bioimaging / Limei Tian and Srikanth Singamaneni -- Pandia? : gold nanorods and their applications in cancer therapy and in vivo imaging in companion animals and their potential application to humans / Christian Schoen and Cheryl London -- Imaging genetic information / John Taylor -- The application of plant viral nanoparticles in tissue-specific imaging / Amy M. Wen, Choi-Fong Cho, John D. Lewis, Nicole F. Steinmetz -- Design and development of theranostic nanomedicines / Jelena M. Janjic and Mingfeng Bai -- Animal models for preclinical imaging / Grayson Talcott and Walter J. Akers..

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