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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Kim C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3065066 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
ACS nano 20100801 8
Early diagnosis, accurate staging, and image-guided resection of melanomas remain crucial clinical objectives for improving patient survival and treatment outcomes. Conventional techniques cannot meet this demand because of the low sensitivity, low specificity, poor spatial resolution, shallow penetration, and/or ionizing radiation. Here we overcome such limitations by combining high-resolution photoacoustic tomography (PAT) with extraordinarily optical absorbing gold nanocages (AuNCs). When bio ...[more]