Novel DiR and SPIO nanoparticles embedded PEG-PLGA nanobubbles as a multimodalimaging contrast agent

Issue title: Frontiers in Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology – Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology, 18–21 August 2015, Shanghai, China

Guest editors: Feng Liu, Dong-Hoon Lee, Ricardo Lagoa and Sandeep Kumar

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Luo, Binhua^{a; b} | Zhang, Huajie^c | Liu, Xuhan^a | Rao, Rong^a | Wu, Yun^d | Liu, Wei^{a; *}

Affiliations: [a] College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China | [b] College of Pharmacy, Hubei University of Science and Technology, Xianning, China | [c] Wuhan Institute of Physical Education, Wuhan, 430079, China | [d] Department of Biomedical Engineering, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA

Correspondence: [*] Address for correspondence: Wei Liu, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China. Tel.: +86-27-87792147; Fax: +86-27-87792234; E-mail: [email protected].

Keywords: Nanobubbles, ultrasound-triggered phase transition, multimodal contrast agent, ultrasound imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, fluorescence imaging

DOI: 10.3233/BME-151384

Journal: Bio-Medical Materials and Engineering, vol. 26, no. s1, pp. S911-S916, 2015