NANOTECHNOLOGY

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• NANOTECHNOLOGY
• Dhakshana Sivayoganathan

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• The Future
• Medicine will change more in the next twenty
  years than it has in the past two thousand
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  Richard Smith
  

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• 4 Main Areas of Nanomedicine

biosensors and diagnostics drug delivery and
therapeutics imaging tissue engineering and
biomaterials
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• Uses in DIAGNOSIS

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• NIR imaging of Ca colon a quantum leap in early
  detection?

Heverhagen JT. Smart near-infrared imaging
probes- a quantom leap for early detection of
colorectal cancer? Radiology 2007224(1)1-2
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Intra-operative imaging
Sentinal lymph node evaluation and tumour extent
99mTc NanoColloid

• Zentralklinikum Augsburg, Nuklearmedizin

Quantum Dot Nanoparticle Fluorescence
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• DRUG DELIVERY

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• MULTIFUNCTIONAL NANOPARTICLES

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The birth of nanotechnology
Richard Feynman Theres plenty of room at
the bottom American Physical Soc. 1959
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• All Great Things Come in Small Packages!

Ipod Nano