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Nanotubes are beacons in cancer-imaging technique

May 23, 2016

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Bathing a patient in LED light may someday offer a new way to locate tumors, according to Rice University researchers.

The spectral triangulation system developed by Rice chemist Bruce Weisman and his colleagues is intended to pinpoint targeted cancer tumors tagged with antibody-linked carbon nanotubes. It is described in a paper in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Nanoscale.

Because the absorption of short-wave infrared light in tissues varies with its wavelength, spectral analysis of light coming through the skin can reveal the depth of tissue through which that light has passed.

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