The concise article by Robert F. Mattrey, Andrew C. Kummel, William Troger and colleagues at University of California, San Diego, on gas filled hollow porous silica microshells for ultrasound image contrast has had a tremendous impact in media outlets worldwide. This article is now included in MedChemComm Issue 4 and as all the MedChemComm content, it is free to access.
These are some of the web pages in which the article has been highlighted:
- HealthImaging.com : http://www.healthimaging.com/index.php?option=com_articles&view=article&id=24183&division=hiit&division=hiit
- Yahoo News: http://in.news.yahoo.com/139/20100920/981/tsc-gas-filled-silica-sphere-markers-can_1.html
- Kenya Star: http://story.kenyastar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/687279/cs/1/
- Division of Physical Sciences: flyproxy0.appspot.com/http/physicalsciences.ucsd.edu/
- Newspolitan: http://www.newspolitan.com/india/sci-tech/2010/09/20/oneindia-Gas-filled-silica-sphere-markers-can-detect-breast-cancer-early
- Highlights in Chemical Biology http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/cb/Volume/2010/11/Tumour_detection.asp
- Chemistry World http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/index.asp
Congratulations to the authors! It is a truly interesting piece of research.
You can read it for free here:
Hard shell gas-filled contrast enhancement particles for colour Doppler ultrasound imaging of tumors
H. Paul Martinez, Yuko Kono, Sarah L. Blair, Sergio Sandoval, Jessica Wang-Rodriguez, Robert F. Mattrey, Andrew C. Kummel and William C. Trogler
Med. Chem. Commun., 2010, 1, 266-270
DOI: 10.1039/C0MD00139B , Concise Article
