Conveners
Biomedical Imaging and Nanotechnology
- Kateryna Yablochkova
Presentation materials
Different types of nanoparticles are widely used because they have unique properties which make them suitable for the diagnostics and therapy (theranostics). They can improve detection selectivity and sensitivity, as imaging agents, delivery systems for encapsulated drugs, proteins and nucleic acids. Nanoparticles show high loading capacity, stability, high drug bioavailability and...
Fluorescence imaging is a perspective noninvasive optical technique to visualize emitting molecules and nanomaterials in biological objects. The limitation of this method is a depth of imaging due to a strong attenuation of light by the tissue, however, the use of near-infrared (NIR) irradiation allows for the visualization of objects under the tissue surface for millimeters. The tissue...
The Optical Kerr Effect (OKE) is a non-linear optical phenomenon in which an intense electric field induces a birefringence in the sample causing changes to the non-linear index (n2). The OKE is attributed to the distortion of the bound and free electrons and the disturbance of the molecular motions in a material.
Our work proposes the OKE as a potentially new method to differentiate differet...
Epitaxial growth of GaN and InGaN heterostructures is very promising for biosensor applications due to their excellent chemical stability, biocompatibility with low toxicity to living cells, and high carrier mobility [1]. Compared to InN thin films, InGaN quantum dot (QD)-based biosensors demonstrate a twofold increase in sensitivity and a fivefold faster response. While significant progress...