Title :
Emerging trends in molecularly targeted optobeacons for photoacoustic tomographic imaging
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Bioeng., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
Abstract :
In this talk we will discuss the potential of photoacoustic imaging in combination with molecularly targeted contrast agents to detect early, sprouting angiogenic expression and the opportunities for improved recognition of cancer metastases.
Keywords :
acoustic tomography; biomedical optical imaging; biomedical ultrasonics; cancer; molecular biophysics; optical tomography; photoacoustic effect; cancer metastases; molecularly targeted contrast agents; molecularly targeted optobeacons; photoacoustic tomographic imaging; sprouting angiogenic expression detection; Biomedical optical imaging; Gold; In vivo; Nanobioscience; Optical imaging; Tomography;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
