Table 3.
Application of gold nanoparticles in cancer imaging and diagnosis.
| Nanoparticles | Nanoparticle Type | Imaging Application |
Advantage | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold nanoparticles | Spheres | X-ray imaging | High payload delivery | [32] |
| rods, shells, labeled spheres | Fluorescence imaging | |||
| Spheres, stars | Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy imaging | Generates a strong electromagnetic field | ||
| Spheres, clusters, rods, shells | Photoacoustic imaging | Requires strong absorption in the NIR window | ||
| Primarily spheres | Optical imaging | The light used is in the NIR window |