Gas-Generating Calcium Carbonate Mineralized Nanoparticles for Ultrasound Imaging

Category

Bioactive Materials: Theranostics and Cancer Nanotechnologies

Year

2012

Authors

Kyung Hyun Min, Seo Young Jeong, and Sang Cheon Lee

Institutions

Departmemt of Life and Nanopharmaceutical Science, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 130-701, Korea; Department of Maxillofacial Biomedical Engineering, School of Dentistry, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 130-701, Korea

Summary

We have developed novel gas-generating calcium carbonate mineralized nanoparticles. GGMNPs showed an excellent US imaging character in vitro and in vivo.