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  • A SERRS/MRI multimodal contrast agent based on naked Au nanoparticles functionalized with a Gd(iii) loaded PEG polymer for tumor imaging and localized hyperthermia.

A SERRS/MRI multimodal contrast agent based on naked Au nanoparticles functionalized with a Gd(iii) loaded PEG polymer for tumor imaging and localized hyperthermia.

Nanoscale (2018-01-03)
Lucio Litti, Niccolò Rivato, Giulio Fracasso, Pietro Bontempi, Elena Nicolato, Pasquina Marzola, Alfonso Venzo, Marco Colombatti, Marina Gobbo, Moreno Meneghetti
ABSTRACT

Multimodal contrast agents offer new interesting diagnostic possibilities, summing the benefits of multiple imaging techniques. Magnetic resonance and optical imaging are complementary techniques. The first allows total body screening, even though it suffers from low spatial resolution and needs high loadings, whereas the second shows lower penetration, but bright signals, and a higher spatial resolution and needs lower loadings. We present a plasmonic nanosystem as a MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) and SERRS (surface enhanced resonance Raman scattering) multimodal contrast agent. Naked gold nanoparticles, obtained by laser ablation synthesis in solution, are organized as a highly efficient SERRS substrate with a naphthalocyanine reporter and functionalized with a MRI contrast agent with a newly synthesized 3DOTA-PEG polymer, with a high Gd

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