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Organic Dye-Loaded Nanoparticles for Imaging-Guided Cancer Therapy

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Recently, organic dye-based imaging-guided cancer therapy has attracted much attention in the field of cancer nanomedicine. As a small molecular compound, organic dye has an exact molecular weight and chemical structure. It can be not only used as fluorescence and photoacoustic imaging probes but also applied as therapeutic agents for photodynamic and photothermal therapy. Functionalized with the different delivery nanomaterials, organic dyes exhibit a long halftime and high tumor targeting and promoted stability. In this chapter, we review the development of organic dyes for cancer imaging and therapy applications in decades and illustrate the use of functional nanomaterials as organic dye delivery systems for enhancing their stability and tumor targeting, which show the bright prospects and challenges toward organic dye-based imaging-guided cancer therapy.

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Sheng, Z., Cai, L. (2016). Organic Dye-Loaded Nanoparticles for Imaging-Guided Cancer Therapy. In: Dai, Z. (eds) Advances in Nanotheranostics I. Springer Series in Biomaterials Science and Engineering, vol 6. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48544-6_7

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