Characterization of plasmon-resonant gold nanorods as near-infrared optical contrast agents investigated using a double-integrating sphere system

Amy Oldenburg; Daniel A. Zweifel; Chenyang Xu; Alexander Wei; Stephen A. Boppart

doi:10.1117/12.589617

31 March 2005 Characterization of plasmon-resonant gold nanorods as near-infrared optical contrast agents investigated using a double-integrating sphere system

Amy Oldenburg, Daniel A. Zweifel, Chenyang Xu, Alexander Wei, Stephen A. Boppart

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Proceedings Volume 5703, Plasmonics in Biology and Medicine II; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.589617
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2005, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

The potential for using plasmon-resonant gold nanorods as targeted contrast agents for in vivo coherent optical imaging is investigated. Separation of the relative strengths of light scattering and absorption of plasmon-resonant nanorods are measured with a double-integrating sphere system at 774 and 1304nm. The maximum likelihood ratio is then used to test the statistical significance of optical changes observed after application of contrast agents to tissue phantoms. Gold plasmon-resonant nanorods with a longitudinal resonance near 800nm are imaged within varying concentrations of intralipid using a 101dB sensitivity, 800nm optical coherence tomography (OCT) system. We estimate the minimum OCT detectible concentration of these nanorods (ca. 15 by 45nm) within 1.1% intralipid to be 25microg/mL of gold.

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Amy Oldenburg, Daniel A. Zweifel, Chenyang Xu, Alexander Wei, and Stephen A. Boppart "Characterization of plasmon-resonant gold nanorods as near-infrared optical contrast agents investigated using a double-integrating sphere system", Proc. SPIE 5703, Plasmonics in Biology and Medicine II, (31 March 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.589617

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