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Near IR-plasmon enhanced guided fluorescence and thermal imaging of tissue subsurface target using ICG-labeled gold nanourchin and protein contrast agent: implication of stability

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A dual-function nanocomposite agent (NCA) was prepared for deep tissue fluorescence and thermal imaging. The results showed that a combination of some agents such as gold nanourchins (GNU) and indocyanine green (ICG) can have spectral overlapping and hence some peak broadening. Despite 83% and 92% loss of NCA fluorescence after tissue layers L1 and L2, respectively, there was sufficient signal detected for imaging the target buried under the tissue. No fluorescence was detected after L3. A significant contribution was made by GNU for both the fluorescence signal due to the plasmon-enhanced fluorescence (PEF) effect and the thermal heating because of local surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) due to its sharp tips. In the first case, PEF occurred within the first 40 s then followed by a gradual quenching by 23% in 4 min and 72% in the following 6 min. During the second quenching time, the emission signal was blue shifted by 10 nm. Of the three samples, sample 2 (S2) indicated the highest temperature rise ≈ 60 °C in 50 s; sample 3 (S3) produced the lowest temperature of ≈ 33 °C in 250 s after the first layer, thus showing BSA acting as a heat sink. Both the heating and cooling time are determined by the thermal properties of the material such as conductivity and diffusivity. Finally, despite the advantages of PEF, the photostability and quenching rate of a dye molecule must be considered in a dynamic detection monitoring system to account and compensate for the effect of contrast agent quality variation.

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The authors would like to thank MIS Electronics Inc. for supporting the research and Roxana Chabok for her assistance with the data preparation.

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    Mohammad E. Khosroshahi, Vaughan Woll-Morison & Yesha Patel

  2. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G8, Canada

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Khosroshahi, M.E., Woll-Morison, V. & Patel, Y. Near IR-plasmon enhanced guided fluorescence and thermal imaging of tissue subsurface target using ICG-labeled gold nanourchin and protein contrast agent: implication of stability. Lasers Med Sci 37, 2145–2156 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10103-021-03471-2

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