Optimizing gold nanoparticles for better medical imaging, drug delivery, and cancer therapy. Credit: Canadian Light Source Using ultrabright synchrotron light—combined with other techniques ...

Nanomedicine. 2015;10(2):321-341. Delivery: "Go where we want." The contrast agent must be able to be delivered in vivo and transported to the site of interest. Nontoxic: "Do no harm along the way.

"The use of multicolor CT and gold nanoparticles to visualize plaque will revolutionize cardiac imaging," radiology professor Zahi Fayad said in a statement. The team hopes to test the method on ...

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs ... time-gated delayed imaging of deep tissues and in vivo computed tomography (CT) imaging, based on the p-AuNPs. The study was jointly completed by Professor Jiang ...

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have emerged as promising drug carriers ... inside the body could lead to more effective cancer treatments - AdobeStock Traditional imaging methods often involve tracers ...

The findings of this study were published in Applied Physics Letters ("Activation imaging of gold nanoparticles for versatile drug visualization: an in vivo demonstration"). “Traditional imaging ...

Neutron-activated gold Novel activation imaging technique enables real-time visualization of gold nanoparticles in the body without the use of external tracers. (Courtesy: Nanase Koshikawa from Waseda ...

Gold nanoparticles, which are supposed to be stable in biological environments, can be degraded inside cells. Gold nanoparticles, which are supposed to be stable in biological environments, can be ...

Now researchers have found a way to grow gold nanoparticles directly inside cancer cells within 30 minutes, which can help with imaging and even be heated up to kill the tumors. For this new study ...

† The mass of AuNPs delivered per cell was estimated from the reported number of AuNPs per cell, assuming perfectly spherical, monosized AuNPs and the bulk density of gold (19.3 g/cm3).