André J Savadjian, Brad M Taicher, Jong Ok La, Mihai Podgoreanu, Timothy E Miller, Sharon McCartney, Karthik Raghunathan, Nirav Shah, Negmeldeen Mamoun
Reduce intraoperative albumin utilisation in cardiac surgical patients: a quality improvement initiative
BMJ open quality
noninvasive precise thermometers working nanoscale high spatial resolution conventional methods ineffective emerged last couple years active field research strongly stimulated numerous challenging requests arising nanotechnology biomedicine critical review offers general overview recent examples luminescent nonluminescent thermometers working nanometric scale luminescent thermometers encompass organic dyes qds ln3ions thermal probes well complex thermometric systems formed polymer organicinorganic hybrid matrices encapsulating emitting centres nonluminescent thermometers comprise scanning thermal microscopy nanolithography thermometry carbon nanotube thermometry biomaterials thermometry emphasis put ratiometric examples reporting spatial resolution lower 1 micron instance intracellular thermometers based organic dyes thermoresponsive polymers mesoporous silica nps qds ln3based upconverting nps diketonate complexes finally discuss challenges opportunities development highly sensitive ratiometric thermometers operating physiological temperature range submicron spatial resolution