Figure 4.

A): The correlation between blood elimination half-life and the volume of AuNR (V_rod). B-D):The correlation between the aspect ratio of AuNR with the tumor AUC (B), the tumor uptake at 24 h (C) and at 48 h post-injection (D). E-F): The correlation between the volume of AuNR (V_rod) with trans-endothelium kinetics constant K₁ (E) and volume of distribution V_D (which is given by K₁ /k₂) (F). The Pearson correlaiton coefficient r and the significance p value are presented for each correlation.