Activatable probes for diagnosing and positioning liver injury and metastatic tumors by multispectral optoacoustic tomography

Yinglong Wu; Shuailing Huang; Jun Wang; Lihe Sun; Fang Zeng; Shuizhu Wu

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-06499-1

Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

Activatable probes for diagnosing and positioning liver injury and metastatic tumors by multispectral optoacoustic tomography

Yinglong Wu,
Shuailing Huang,
Jun Wang,
Lihe Sun,
Fang Zeng,
Shuizhu Wu

Affiliations

Yinglong Wu: State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials & Devices, College of Materials Science & Engineering, South China University of Technology
Shuailing Huang: State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials & Devices, College of Materials Science & Engineering, South China University of Technology
Jun Wang: State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials & Devices, College of Materials Science & Engineering, South China University of Technology
Lihe Sun: State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials & Devices, College of Materials Science & Engineering, South China University of Technology
Fang Zeng: State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials & Devices, College of Materials Science & Engineering, South China University of Technology
Shuizhu Wu: State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials & Devices, College of Materials Science & Engineering, South China University of Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06499-1
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Optoacoustic tomography has great potential for medical diagnosis and preclinical research. Here they develop near infrared activatable xanthene-based optoacoustic probes for diagnosing and localizing drug-induced liver injury and metastasis in mouse models.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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