Breast cancer is anticipated to be responsible for almost 40,000 deaths in the USA in 2011.
The current clinical detection techniques suffer from limitations which motivated researchers …

Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers among the population of the Western
world. Diagnostic methods include mammography, ultrasound, and magnetic resonance; …

Molecular imaging with photoacoustic ultrasound is an emerging field that combines the
spatial and temporal resolution of ultrasound with the contrast of optical imaging. However …

Diffuse optical imaging (DOI) techniques provide a non-invasive, low cost and sensitive
method for assessing the functional state of the human breast. Several studies undertaken in …

Over the past decade, nanomedicine and nanobiology have undergone radical
transformations from fantasy to real science. The days of discussing advances in this area in …

To evaluate if clinical fluorescence imaging of IRDye800CW is feasible on our fluorescence
optical mammography system by estimating detection limits assessed by breast-cancer …

In photoacoustic imaging, nanoparticle contrast agents offer strong signal intensity and long-
term stability, but are limited by poor biodistribution and clearance profiles. Conversely …

BACKGROUND 0004 Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) has found broad appli cations in
oncology including prostate (Agarwal et al.,(2007) J. Appl. Phys. 102: 064701-064704) …

One of the most versatile and safe material used in medicine is polymer-based
nanomaterials. This dissertation describes the use of several formulations of polymeric …

The use of light-driven imaging techniques for the diagnosis of breast cancer dates back to
as early as 1929. Transillumination was evaluated for potential differentiation of breast …