Heavy Metal-Based Nanoparticles as High-Performance X-ray Computed Tomography Contrast Agents

• Main Authors: Mohammad Yaseen Ahmad (Author), Shuwen Liu (Author), Tirusew Tegafaw (Author), Abdullah Khamis Ali Al Saidi (Author), Dejun Zhao (Author), Ying Liu (Author), Sung-Wook Nam (Author), Yongmin Chang (Author), Gang Ho Lee (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2023-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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X-ray computed tomography (CT) contrast agents offer extremely valuable tools and techniques in diagnostics via contrast enhancements. Heavy metal-based nanoparticles (NPs) can provide high contrast in CT images due to the high density of heavy metal atoms with high X-ray attenuation coefficients th...