Light-driven transformable optical agent with adaptive functions for boosting cancer surgery outcomes

The combination of imaging techniques in cancer treatment often involves a trade-off in properties due to the opposite working mechanisms. Here, the authors report on a material that avoids the trade-off by switching from photoacoustic imaging to fluorescence imaging upon an external light trigger

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ji Qi, Chao Chen, Xiaoyan Zhang, Xianglong Hu, Shenglu Ji, Ryan T. K. Kwok, Jacky W. Y. Lam, Dan Ding, Ben Zhong Tang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04222-8