Affiliation:
1. Department of Chemistry “Ugo Schiff”, University of Florence, Via della Lastruccia 3, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
Abstract
An experimental study on an innovative contrast agent is presented. This work demonstrates that copper sulfide in the form of small-sized nanoparticles can be exploited in photoacoustic imaging. An advantage of this material is strong light absorption in the near-infrared range, especially in the transparency windows of biological tissues. In order to yield a proper contrast, light absorption must be followed by heat release with high efficiency. Therefore, it is important to evaluate the photochemical conversion efficiency of the material. We applied a method that is strictly related to photoacoustic applications. The nanoparticles were produced according to a well-established synthesis. Subsequently, they were diluted in pure water to obtain an extinction <0.2/cm at 1064 nm. The photoacoustic signals, generated by 1064 nm laser excitation, were analyzed as a function of concentration and incident laser energy below 70 μJ /pulse. The signals were carefully compared with those of a reference aqueous solution, containing a light-absorbing ionic solute. Data analysis yielded a light-to-heat conversion efficiency 1.0 (±0.1). We discuss this result by comparison with related studies on other types of copper sulfide nanoparticles, where the conversion efficiency reportedly varied from 33% to 93%. The high value determined in the present study possibly indicates that resonant light scattering and luminescence are negligible for our material system.
Funder
University of Florence, Italy
Subject
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging,Instrumentation,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
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