ANOVA	analysis of variance
BSA	Bovine Serum Albumin
CT	Computed Tomography
DLS	Dynamic light scattering
EPR	enhanced permeability and retention effect
FBS	fetal bovine serum
GNP	gold nanoparticle
HU	Hounsfield unit
IACUC	Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
IAW	Inveon Acquisition Workplace
ICP-OES	Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry
IT	intra-tumoral
LLC	Lewis Lung Carcinoma
LLC-Luc	luciferase expressing Lewis Lung Carcinoma
MM	Multi-Modality
MTT	(3-(4,5-dimethylthiazolyl-2)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide)
NSCLC	Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
OsO4	osmium tetroxide
PBS	phosphate buffered saline
PDI	polydispersity index
pI	Isoelectric Point
ROI	region of interest
s.e.m.	standard error of the mean
SERS	Surface-enhanced Raman scattering
SPR	surface plasmon resonance
STEM	Scanning transmission electron microscopy