Silicon nanoparticles as hyperpolarized magnetic resonance imaging agents

JW Aptekar, MC Cassidy, AC Johnson, RA Barton… - ACS …, 2009 - ACS Publications
silicon nanoparticles as a new type of hyperpolarized magnetic resonance imaging agent. …
First, we demonstrate for the first time that Si nanoparticles retain long T 1 times at room …

Gated luminescence imaging of silicon nanoparticles

J Joo, X Liu, VR Kotamraju, E Ruoslahti, Y Nam… - ACS …, 2015 - ACS Publications
… of porous Si nanoparticles (PSiNPs) … imaging agents. Aliquots (5 μL) of the PSiNP (100
μg/mL, corresponding to 500 ng) and AF647 (1.5 μg/mL, corresponding to 7.5 ng) imaging agents

Development of iron-doped silicon nanoparticles as bimodal imaging agents

MP Singh, TM Atkins, E Muthuswamy, S Kamali, C Tu… - ACS …, 2012 - ACS Publications
… -doped Si (Si xFe ) nanoparticles as bimodal agents for optical and magnetic imaging. The
preparation involves the synthesis of a single-source iron-containing precursor, Na 4 Si 4 with …

Enhanced performance of a molecular photoacoustic imaging agent by encapsulation in mesoporous silicon nanoparticles

J Kang, D Kim, J Wang, Y Han, JM Zuidema… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… Here, we find that the response of the PA contrast agent indocyanine green (ICG) can be …
nanoparticle. ICG encapsulated in particles composed of porous silicon (pSiNP), porous silica, …

Ultrasmall silicon nanoparticles as a promising platform for multimodal imaging

G Singh, JLZ Ddungu, N Licciardello… - Faraday …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
… NPs remains in the NIR region (600–900 nm) and thus, these nanoparticles are applicable
for in vivo trials as potential imaging agents. The emission band of the IR800-Si NPs is …

Surface-functionalized silicon nanoparticles as contrast agents for photoacoustic microscopy imaging

Z Ye, PK Srivastava, Y Xu, W Wang, L Jing… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2019 - ACS Publications
… and high-resolution OR-PAM imaging of zebrafish and cancer cells by using silicon nanoparticles
(SiNPs) as contrast agents. Owing to the indirect band gap nature of silicon, the pulsed …

Silicon nanoparticles as contrast agents in the methods of optical biomedical diagnostics

SV Zabotnov, FV Kashaev, DV Shuleiko… - Quantum …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
… In order to study the efficiency of the silicon nanoparticles used as contrast agents in OCT
imaging, we compared experimentally both types of the studied nano-particles, ie, the ones …

Photoluminescent and biodegradable porous silicon nanoparticles for biomedical imaging

Y Park, J Yoo, MH Kang, W Kwon, J Joo - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
… Next, intrinsic photoluminescence, the key element allowing application of PSiNPs as an
imaging agent, is highlighted with near-infrared emission and micro-second scale lifetime. …

Solid silica nanoparticles: applications in molecular imaging

V Shirshahi, M Soltani - Contrast media & molecular imaging, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
… In this technique, positron emitting radioisotopes such as 64 Cu or 124 I are used as imaging
agents. The positron is emitted from the nucleus of the radionuclide and can travel a short …

Two‐photon in vivo imaging with porous silicon nanoparticles

D Kim, J Kang, T Wang, HG Ryu… - Advanced …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
imaging demonstration presented in this work highlights two advantages of pSiNPs as
imaging agents: … to standard molecular two-photon imaging agents such as rhodamine 6G, the …