A $1.1 million grant from the John R. Oishei Foundation will help spur development of new, nanoparticle-based multiprobe systems for medical imaging, according to researchers at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo's Institute for Lasers, Photonics, and Biophotonics.
The goal of the research is to create nanoparticle systems that contain multiple contrast agents for different medical imaging techniques.
When injected with multimodality nanoparticles, a patient could undergo several imaging tests, the results of which could be combined to provide more comprehensive and complementary information, such as correlations between molecular and morphological changes at the cellular level, the researchers explained.
The nanoprobes are being developed for use with CT, MRI, PET, and optical imaging techniques.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
October 6, 2006
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