Pan Dipanjan, Pramanik Manojit, Senpan Angana, Yang Xinmai, Song Kwang H, Scott Mike J, Zhang Huiying, Gaffney Patrick J, Wickline Samuel A, Wang Lihong V, Lanza Gregory M
C-TRAIN and Division of Cardiology, Washington University School of Medicine, 4320 Forest Park Avenue, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA.
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2009;48(23):4170-3. doi: 10.1002/anie.200805947.
Spotting clots: Vascularly constrained colloidal gold nanobeacons (GNBs; see picture) can be used as exogenous photoacoustic contrast agents for the targeted detection of fibrin, a major biochemical feature of thrombus. Fibrin-targeted GNBs provide a more than tenfold signal enhancement in photoacoustic tomography in the near-IR wavelength window, indicating their potential for diagnostic imaging.
血管受限的胶体金纳米信标(GNBs;见图)可作为外源性光声造影剂,用于靶向检测纤维蛋白,这是血栓的一个主要生化特征。靶向纤维蛋白的GNBs在近红外波长窗口的光声断层成像中可提供超过十倍的信号增强,表明其在诊断成像方面的潜力。