Inorganic Nanoparticles for Biological Photoacoustic Imaging
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "D：Materials and Processing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2021) | Viewed by 285
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Interests: nanomaterials; contrast agents; nanotherapeutics; molecular imaging
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Dear Colleagues,
Photoacoustic imaging is a new type of non-invasive imaging technique that combines the high temporal and spatial resolution of ultrasound with the excellent spectral contrast of optics. In photoacoustic imaging, based on a ‘light in/sound out’ approach, the signals are generated by ultrasonic waves from the transient thermoelastic expansion of tissue upon near-infrared (NIR) light illumination. Here, some of the nanoscale inorganic materials (e.g., noble metal, metal chalcogenide, semiconductor, carbon-based nanoparticles) exhibit strong NIR light absorption to generate intense photoacoustic signals in deep tissue. These nanoparticles are often attached to molecularly targeted ligands to achieve effective systemic delivery. When the nanoparticles are tailored to gain spectrally separable contrast, they can allow multiplexed imaging to visualize multiple molecular targets or processes. Thus, the use of inorganic-nanoparticle-based contrast agents greatly extends photoacoustic imaging applications in disease diagnosis, drug delivery, targeted therapy, image-guided surgery, and biosensing.
This Special Issue will highlight the recent advances in inorganic nanoparticles for biological photoacoustic imaging in (but not limited to) the following topics: nanoparticle fabrication, nanoparticle assembly, nanoparticle coating, characterization method, imaging mechanism study, 1st NIR imaging, 2nd NIR imaging, multiplexing, multimodality, ratiometric imaging, activatable imaging, biomedical application, and clinical translation. Please consider contributing your original research articles, short communications, and review articles to this Special Issue. We looking forward to your response.
Prof. Dr. Taeho Kim
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nanoparticles
- contrast agents
- photoacoustics
- inorganic
- theranostics
- molecular imaging
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