Engineering new nanostructures for enhanced interaction with imaging radiation

纳米工程提供了一种独特的策略，以形成具有多种特性的新材料，这些特性可用于从光学和电子到生物技术和医学等领域。与纳米技术领域相关的一个基本兴奋点源于这样一个事实，即在纳米尺度上，物理性质和现象不再仅仅取决于结构的组成，而且还取决于它们的大小和形状。纳米技术的一个有前途的领域是医学成像，其中辐射，如光，超声波，射频波，磁场和X射线，用于成像患者的内部解剖结构以诊断疾病。

Nanoengineering offers a unique strategy to form new materials with a combination of properties engineered for applications in fields ranging from optics and electronics to biotechnology and medicine. A fundamental excitement associated with the field of nanotechnology stems from the fact that at the nanoscale, physical properties and phenomena are no longer dependent only on the composition of the structure, but also on their size and shape. One promising area for nanotechnology is in medical imaging, where radiation, such as light, ultrasound, radiofrequency waves, magnetic fields, and x-rays, is used to image the internal anatomy of patients to diagnose disease.