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SERS Biosensing and Bioimaging: Design and Applications in Cancer Diagnostics

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Next Generation Point-of-care Biomedical Sensors Technologies for Cancer Diagnosis

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Enhancement of cancer diagnostics based on biomarker detection and nanoparticle tags has been a focus of current scientific and medical research. Raman spectroscopy was one of the first methods used to identify different diseases based on their unique Raman signatures. The method is convenient and noninvasive, and has had many practical uses in surgery for monitoring respiratory and anesthetic gas mixtures. Unfortunately, owing to its weak efficiency and low sensitivity, Raman spectroscopy is not the optimal choice for routine use in biomedicine.

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This work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan, under Grant No. 104C3562-1 and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taipei, Taiwan, under Grant No. 105TFDA-A-105.

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Kong, K.V. (2017). SERS Biosensing and Bioimaging: Design and Applications in Cancer Diagnostics. In: Chandra, P., Tan, Y., Singh, S. (eds) Next Generation Point-of-care Biomedical Sensors Technologies for Cancer Diagnosis. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4726-8_15

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