Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

DNA-enabled rational design of fluorescence-Raman bimodal nanoprobes for cancer imaging and therapy

  • Suchetan Pal,
  • Angana Ray,
  • Chrysafis Andreou,
  • Yadong Zhou,
  • Tatini Rakshit,
  • Marek Wlodarczyk,
  • Masatomo Maeda,
  • Ricardo Toledo-Crow,
  • Naxhije Berisha,
  • Jiang Yang,
  • Hsiao-Ting Hsu,
  • Anton Oseledchyk,
  • Jagannath Mondal,
  • Shengli Zou,
  • Moritz F. Kircher

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09173-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Currently available Raman scanners are limited in speed to acquire images of clinically relevant sizes in cancer imaging. Here, the authors developed a DNA based design principle for Raman-Fluorescence bimodal nanoparticles and demonstrate real-time, high precision image-guided tumor resections and photothermal ablation of cancer.