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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 24.
Published in final edited form as: Chemistry. 2011 Jan 5;17(4):1080–1091. doi: 10.1002/chem.201002521

Table 1. Selected examples of probes used for dynamic contrast in imaging.

Modulation Dynamic contrast agents Imaging modality Demodulation Reference
Magnetomotive Magnetofluorescent particles Fluorescence Differential imaging [28-32]
Gold nanostars with Fe3O4 cores Darkfield scattering Fourier transform [48, 49]
Fe3O4@Au core–shell nanoparticles Darkfield scattering Fourier transform [49, 50]
Fe3O4 nanoparticles Optical coherence tomography (OCT) Differential imaging [58-61],[65]
Hemoglobin Optical Doppler tomography (ODT) Differential imaging [64]
Fe3O4@Au core–shell nanoparticles Photoacoustic Cross-correlation [66]
FexOy nanoparticles Ultrasound Fourier transform [67]
Optical Ag nanodots Fluorescence Fourier transform [81,82]
Photoswitchable fluorophores Fluorescence Cross-correlation, Fourier transform [81,82], [92]
CdSe quantum dots (QDs) Fluorescence Cross-correlation [80]
6-Fam/TAMRA, Cy3/Cy5 (FRET dyes) Fluorescence Fourier transform [83]
Photothermal Gold nanoparticles OCT Fourier transform [88]
Gold nanoshells OCT Fourier transform [89, 90]