A photothermal cell viability-reporting theranostic nanoprobe for intraoperative optical ablation and tracking of tumors
- 1 May 2014
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- Vol. 50 (59) , 8014-8017
Abstract
A photothermal pH-reporting nanoprobe was developed for intraoperative tumor detection by “turn-on” fluorescence of the probe inside viable tumor cells, photothermal tumor therapy, and in situ monitoring of tumor killing by non-fluorescence of the probe in damaged cells.Keywords
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