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Shatadru Chakravarty

Shatadru Chakravarty PhD, MSc, BSc

Radiology
East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

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Shatadru Chakravarty, Ph.D. was currently working as a post-doctoral research associate with Prof. Erik Shapiro in his Molecular and Cellular Imaging Laboratory (MCIL) since November 2014. His current work involves the development of X-ray dense nanoparticles as a Computed Tomography (CT) contrast agent for Ovarian cancer detection. Traditionally, gold nanoparticles have been employed for molecular CT though concerns regarding the overall cost of gold have augmented the search for viable alternatives. Bismuth, a semimetal in the bulk state, He has almost identical X-ray attenuation properties as gold and is about a 1000-fold cheaper.
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