Dual-modality photothermal optical coherence tomography and magnetic-resonance imaging of carbon nanotubes.
OPTICS LETTERS 2012;
37:872-4. [PMID:
22378422 PMCID:
PMC3390748 DOI:
10.1364/ol.37.000872]
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Abstract
We demonstrate polyethylene-glycol-coated single-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) as contrast agents for both photothermal optical coherence tomography (OCT) and magnetic-resonance imaging (MRI). Photothermal OCT was accomplished with a spectral domain OCT system with an amplitude-modulated 750 nm pump beam using 10 mW of power, and T(2) MRI was achieved with a 4.7 T animal system. Photothermal OCT and T(2) MRI achieved sensitivities of nanomolar concentrations to CNTs dispersed in amine-terminated polyethylene glycol, thus establishing the potential for dual-modality molecular imaging with CNTs.
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