Given the right design, one nanopar-ticle can help image a tumor and then help destroy it. That is the finding of a research group comprising members from Rice University in Houston and from Texas A&M University in College Station. Led by Rice bioengi-neering professor Jennifer L. West and associate bioengineering professor Rebekah A. Drezek, the team first demonstrated that nanoshells - nanoparticles with a dielectric core surrounded by a thin metal shell - could be used as a contrast agent for optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging in the near-IR. They then showed that the shells could be used to attack tumors through near-IR heating.
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机译：如果设计正确，那么一个纳米粒子可以帮助对肿瘤成像，然后帮助破坏肿瘤。这就是一个研究小组的发现，该小组的成员来自休斯敦的莱斯大学和大学城的德克萨斯农工大学。该团队在赖斯生物工程教授Jennifer L. West和生物工程学副教授Rebekah A. Drezek的带领下，首先证明了纳米壳-具有被薄金属壳包围的介电核的纳米颗粒-可用作光学相干层析成像的造影剂。 （OCT）成像在近红外。然后他们证明了这些弹壳可以用来通过近红外加热来攻击肿瘤。
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