Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are highly compelling nanomaterials for biomedical studies due
to their unique optical properties. By leveraging the versatile optical properties of different …

Optical microscopy has been a fundamental tool of biological discovery for more than three
centuries, but its in vivo tissue imaging ability has been restricted by light scattering to …

This critical review provides an overall survey of the basic concepts and up-to-date literature
results concerning the very promising use of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) for medicinal …

There is currently considerable effort to incorporate both diagnostic and therapeutic
functions into a single nanoscale system for the more effective treatment of cancer …

Theranostics, the fusion of therapy and diagnostics for optimizing efficacy and safety of
therapeutic regimes, is a growing field that is paving the way towards the goal of …

Gold nanostructures possess unique characteristics that enable their use as contrast agents,
as therapeutic entities, and as scaffolds to adhere functional molecules, therapeutic cargo …

When it first appeared, multimodal fundus imaging revolutionized the diagnostic workup and
provided extremely useful new insights into the pathogenesis of fundus diseases. The recent …

The application of optical coherence tomography (OCT) in the field of oncology has been
prospering over the past decade. OCT imaging has been used to image a broad spectrum of …

We review the development of phantoms for optical coherence tomography (OCT) designed
to replicate the optical, mechanical and structural properties of a range of tissues. Such …

Polyethylene glycol (PEG) surface coatings are widely used to render stealth properties to
nanoparticles in biological applications. There is abundant literature on the benefits of PEG …