Abstract
We demonstrate the ability to image cancerous cells in three-dimensional tissue phantoms utilizing the bright two-photon luminescence from molecularly targeted gold nanorods. Nanorod labeled cells provide three orders-of-magnitude more signal than autofluorescence from unlabeled cells.
© 2007 Optical Society of America
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