Engineering of gadofluoroprobes: Broad-spectrum applications from cancer diagnosis to therapy

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-13-2014

Abstract

The engineering of the Gadolinium based nanostructures have been demonstrated in this paper. Nanostructures of α-Gd2S 3 exhibit a unique transition between ferromagnetic state and paramagnetic state of the system. It was demonstrated that their properties could be tuned for a wide range of applications ranging from hyperthermia to Magnetic Resonance Imaging, owing to their magnetic moments and large relaxivities. Metallic Gd nanoparticles obtained by reduction method were employed for cancer imaging in mice. The Gd nanoparticles were coated with Curcumin and their biomedical implications in the field of simultaneous diagnosis and therapy of cancer and related diseases has been discussed. © 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.

Publication Title

Applied Physics Letters

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