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SUBMITTER: Zha Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3733053 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20130101
Ultrasound (US) imaging provides a valuable opportunity to administer photothermal therapy (PTT) of cancer with real-time guidance to ensure proper targeting, but only a few theranostic agents were developed by physically grafting near infrared (NIR)-absorbing inorganic nanomaterials to ready-made ultrasound contrast agents (UCAs) for US imaging guided PTT. In this paper, NIR absorbing hollow microspheres were generated from polypyrrole merely using a facile one-step microemulsion method. It was ...[more]