Contrast Enhancement of Optical Coherence Tomography Images Using Branched Gold Nanoparticles

Table 1

Summary of gold seeds and B-GNPs.

Seed concentration (no. of seeds/mL)	Mean core size of B-GNPs (nm)	Mean tip length of B-GNPs (nm)	Concentration^a (no. of B-GNPs/mL)
7.2×10^13	78±13	40±15	6.6×10^9

^aNP concentration was calculated in a manner similar to that in reference [25].