Main description:

This book highlights the recent advances in nanotheranostics from basic research to potential applications, and discusses the modular design and engineering of multiplex nanoparticles including gold nanostructures, luminescent nanoparticles, dendrimers and liposomes. Each chapter demonstrates multifunctional nanoparticles with topics covering targeting, imaging, delivery, diagnostics, and therapy as new modalities for cancer theranostics. This comprehensive book presents expert views on the latest developments in theranostic nanomedicine.

It focuses on potential theranostic applications of multifunctional nanoparticles ranging from identifying noninvasively cancer cells by molecular detection, and visualizing in vivo drug delivery by means of contrast enhanced imaging, to destroying cancer cell s with minimal side effects via selective accumulation at tumor sites, and real-time monitoring therapeutic effectiveness. It also presents an interdisciplinary survey of nanotheranostics and as such is a valuable resource for researchers and students in related fields.

Zhifei Dai is a Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, China.

Contents:

Part I Gold nanostructures based theranostics.- Near-Infrared Light-Mediated Gold Nanoplatforms for Cancer Theranostics.- Gold nanostructures for cancer imaging and therapy.- Gold nanorods for biomedical imaging and therapy in cancer.- Part II Theranostic luminescent nanoparticles.- Lanthanide-Doped Upconvertion Nanoparticles for Imaging Guided Drug Delivery and Therapy.- Engineering Upconversion Nanoparticles for Multimodal biomedical Imaging guided Therapeutic Applications.- Multifunctional Quantum Dot-based Nanoscale Modalities for Theranostic Applications.- Organic dye loaded nanoparticles for imaging-guided cancer therapy.- Part III Dendrimers and liposomes for theranostics.- Dendrimer-based nanodevices as contrast agents for MR imaging applications.- Functional dendritic polymers based nanoscale vehicles for imaging guided cancer therapy.- Multifunctional liposomes for imaging-guided therapy.