Photothermal therapy (PPT) as well as photodynamic therapy (PDT) are cancer treatments that use light in combination with photosensiting agents or drugs to kill cancer cells. These techniques can be greatly improved if adequately developed within the new paradigms that are emerging from theranostic nanomedicine. Because of their strongly resonant light-absorbing and light-scattering properties that depend on shape, noble metal nanoparticles (NPs) provide a new and powerful tool for innovative light-based approaches, in particular gold NPs, AuNPs. At wavelengths just beyond the visible spectrum in the near-infrared, blood and tissue are maximally transmissive....(continues)

Nanoplasmonics issues for improving cancer treatments

D'Acunto M
2016

Abstract

Photothermal therapy (PPT) as well as photodynamic therapy (PDT) are cancer treatments that use light in combination with photosensiting agents or drugs to kill cancer cells. These techniques can be greatly improved if adequately developed within the new paradigms that are emerging from theranostic nanomedicine. Because of their strongly resonant light-absorbing and light-scattering properties that depend on shape, noble metal nanoparticles (NPs) provide a new and powerful tool for innovative light-based approaches, in particular gold NPs, AuNPs. At wavelengths just beyond the visible spectrum in the near-infrared, blood and tissue are maximally transmissive....(continues)
2016
Istituto di Biofisica - IBF
Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "Alessandro Faedo" - ISTI
Istituto di Struttura della Materia - ISM - Sede Roma Tor Vergata
978 88 8080 214 3
Nanoplasmonics
Gold nanoshells
Near-Infrared transparency windows
Scanning Near Field Microscopy
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