Gold nanorods increase contrast in optoacoustic imaging

摘要

Ateam of researchers wants to use gold to mark a spot where a tumor in the earliest stage of breast or prostate cancer exists. To that end, a group from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, from Fairway Medical Technologies in Houston, from the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Jacksonville, Fla., and from the University of nology is offering is extraordinary," said researcher Massoud Motamedi, director of the Center for Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas Medical Branch.