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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 14, Issue 15, Pages 6724-6738Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.006724
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Plasmon-resonant gold nanorods are demonstrated as low backscattering albedo contrast agents for optical coherence tomography ( OCT). We define the backscattering albedo, a', as the ratio of the backscattering to extinction coefficient. Contrast agents which modify a' within the host tissue phantoms are detected with greater sensitivity by the differential OCT measurement of both a' and extinction. Optimum sensitivity is achieved by maximizing the difference between contrast agents and tissue, vertical bar a'(ca)-a'(tiss)vertical bar. Low backscattering albedo gold nanorods ( 14 x 44 nm;. max = 780 nm) within a high backscattering albedo tissue phantom with an uncertainty in concentration of 20% ( randomized 2 +/- 0.4% intralipid) were readily detected at 82 ppm ( by weight) in a regime where extinction alone could not discriminate nanorods. The estimated threshold of detection was 30 ppm. (c) 2006 Optical Society of America.
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