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Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, USA
E-mail: kfjensen@mit.edu
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Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, USA
E-mail: jgfuji@mit.edu
Chem. Commun., 2012,48, 6654-6656
DOI:
10.1039/C2CC32969G
Received
11 Mar 2012,
Accepted
10 May 2012
First published online
10 May 2012
We present a novel one-step flow process to synthesize biocompatible gold nanorods with tunable absorption and biocompatible surface ligands. Photothermal optical coherence tomography (OCT) of human breast tissue is successfully demonstrated using tailored gold nanorods designed to have strong absorption in the near-infrared range.
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