Light is of essential importance to the universe and humankind. Light has been, and
continues to be, one of the most fundamental and indispensable elements to life and society …

Nanomedicine is defined as “the application of nanotechnology to medicine, including the
use of nanometer-sized carrier materials for facilitating disease diagnosis, disease treatment …

The conundrum of modality selection in clinical diagnostic imaging is that modalities with the
highest sensitivity have relatively poor resolution, while those with high resolution have …

Computed tomography (CT) is an X‐ray‐based whole‐body imaging technique that is
widely used in medicine. Clinically approved contrast agents for CT are iodinated small …

The wide variety of core materials available, coupled with tunable surface properties, make
nanoparticles an excellent platform for a broad range of biological and biomedical …

Interest in lanthanide‐containing organic–inorganic hybrids has grown considerably during
the last decade, with the concomitant fabrication of materials with tunable attributes offering …

The use of nanotechnology for medical purposes—nanomedicine—has grown exponentially
over the past few decades. This is exemplified by the US Food and Drug Administration's …

Nanoparticles have been extensively studied for their unique size-dependent electronic,
optical, and magnetic properties and their potential applications as probes in biomedical …

Background—Exaggerated and prolonged inflammation after myocardial infarction (MI)
accelerates left ventricular remodeling. Inflammatory pathways may present a therapeutic …

Contrast agents are divided into two categories. The first one is paramagnetic compounds,
including lanthanides like gadolinium, which mainly reduce the longitudinal (T 1) relaxation …