Copper Sulfide Nanodisks and Nanoprisms for Photoacoustic Ovarian Tumor Imaging

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Date 2020 Sep 1

PMID 32863594

Citations 6

Authors

Junxin Wang

Su-Wen Hsu

Natalia Gonzalez-Pech

Anamik Jhunjhunwala

Fang Chen

Ali Hariri

Vicki Grassian

Andrea Tao

Jesse V Jokerst

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Abstract

Transvaginal ultrasound is widely used for ovarian cancer screening but has a high false positive rate. Photoacoustic imaging provides additional optical contrast to supplement ultrasound and might be able to improve the accuracy of screening. Here, we report two copper sulfide (CuS) nanoparticles types (nanodisks and triangular nanoprisms) as the photoacoustic contrast agents for imaging ovarian cancer. Both CuS nanoprisms and nanodisks were ~6 nm thick and ~26 nm wide and were coated with poly(ethylene glycol) to make them colloidally stable in phosphate buffered saline (PBS) for at least 2 weeks. The CuS nanodisks and nanoprisms revealed strong localized surface plasmon resonances with peak maxima at 1145 nm and 1098 nm, respectively. Both nanoparticles types had strong and stable photoacoustic intensity with detection limits below 120 pM. The circular CuS nanodisk remained in the circulation of nude mice (n=4) and xenograft 2008 ovarian tumors (n=4) 17.9-fold and 1.8-fold more than the triangular nanoprisms, respectively. Finally, the photoacoustic intensity of the tumors from the mice (n=3) treated with CuS nanodisks was 3.0-fold higher than the baseline. The tumors treated with nanodisks had a characteristic peak at 920 nm in the spectrum to potentially differentiate the tumor from adjacent tissues.

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