The images showed significantly higher CT attenuation values in the perivascular area (yellow arrows) in mice injected with GNPs. (Courtesy: CC BY 4.0/Mol. Imaging Biol. 10.1007/s11307-021-01654-5) ...

Health care professionals use tiny particles of gold (nanoparticles) for a variety of medical applications—from diagnostic imaging to cancer treatment. Gold works well for these applications ...

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 is an extremely inert material, and properly stabilized gold nanoparticles are biocompatible. Such high biocompatibility is great advantage for CT imaging where high dosages of contrast agent are ...

Scientists in Japan have developed a new way to do just that using tiny gold ... imaging methods often use external tracers ...

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

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

† 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).