title: Multifunctional optical imaging using dye-coated gold nanorods in a turbid medium.
abstract: We report multifunctional optical imaging using dye-coated gold nanorods. Three types of useful information, namely, Raman, fluorescence signals, and absorption contrast, can be obtained from a phantom experiment. These three kinds of information are detected in a nanoparticle-doped-phantom using diffuse optical imaging. Our novel nanoparticle could be used as a multimodality marker for future bioimaging applications.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, Zhejiang University, Centre for Optical and Electromagnetic Research, and Joint Research Center of Photonics of the Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) and Zhejiang University, Zijingang Campus, Hangzhou 310058, China.
authors.forename: Fuhong
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cai
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Qian
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Sailing
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: He
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D006046:Gold; D008856:Microscopy, Fluorescence / Q000295:instrumentation*; D049329:Nanostructures; D009391:Nephelometry and Turbidimetry / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013059:Spectrum Analysis, Raman / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013382:Subtraction Technique / Q000295:instrumentation*
chemical_list: D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D006046:Gold