Barszczyk, N. Singh, A. Alikhassi, M. V. Oirschot, G. Kuling, A. Kiss, S. Gandhi, S. Nofech-Mozes, N. L. Hong, A. Bilbily, A. Martel, N. Matsuura, and B. Curpen. “3D CT Radiomic Analysis Improves Detection of Axillary Lymph Node Metastases Compared to Conventional Features in Patients With Locally Advanced Breast Cancer” Journal of Breast Imaging 6 (4): 397-406 (2024)

Song, J. Zou, E. A. Castellanos, N. Matsuura, J. A. Ronald, A. Shuhendler, W. A. Weber, A. A. Gilad, C. Müller, T. H. Witney, and X. Chen. “Theranostics – a sure cure for cancer after 100 years?” Theranostics 14 (6): 2464-2488 (2024).

McGrath, Y. Shen, M. Aragaki, Y. Motooka, T. Koga, A. Gregor, N. Bernards, E. Cherin, C. Demore, K. Yasufuku, and N. Matsuura. “Imaging microbubbles with contrast-enhanced endobronchial ultrasound.” Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology 50 (1): 28-38 (2024). 

Dixon, X. Zhu, L. Chen, A. Montazeri, N. Matsuura, N. Kherani, and H. Holman, “Dispersion-Engineered Deep Sub-Wavelength Plasmonic Metasurfaces for Broadband SEIRA Applications.” Advanced Optical Materials 12 (1): 2300979 (2024).

Dixon, R. Bonon, F. Ivander, S. A. Ebrahim, K. Namdar, M. Shayegannia, F. Khalvati, N. Kherani, A. Zavodni and N. Matsuura, “Using Machine Learning and Silver Nanoparticle-Based Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Classification of Cardiovascular Disease Biomarkers.” ACS Applied Nano Materials 6 (17): 15385-15396 (2023). 

Dixon, M. Hasham, M. Shayegannnia, N. Matsuura, M. Wilson and N. Kherani, “Plasmonic Bullseye Nanocavities for Broadband Light Localization and Multi-wavelength SERS.” Advanced Optical Materials 11 (22): 2300878 (2023). 

Liu, D. Esser, B. Wagstaff, A. Zavodni, N. Matsuura, J. Kelly and E. Diller, “Capsule robot pose and mechanism state detection in ultrasound using attention-based hierarchical deep learning.” Scientific Reports 12, 21130 (2022). 

Bombem, J. M. Drake, A. R. Moody and N. Matsuura, “Development of customizable MRI intraplaque hemorrhage imaging phantoms,” Molecular Imaging and Biology 24, 732-739 (Oct 2022). 

Koucheki, K. Dowling, N. R. Patel, N. Matsuura and S. Mafeld, “Characteristics of Imipenem/Cilastatin: Considerations for Musculoskeletal Embolotherapy.” Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology 32 (7), 1040-1043 (2021). 

Helfield, Y. Zou, and N. Matsuura, “Acoustically-stimulated nanobubbles: opportunities in medical ultrasound imaging and therapy.” Frontiers in Physics 9 (2021). 

Shokrollahi, Y. P. Lai, S. Rash-Ahmadi, V. Stewart, M. Mohammadigheisar, L. Huber, N. Matsuura, Anna Zavodni, John Parkinson, and Eric Diller, “Blindly Controlled Magnetically Actuated Capsule for Noninvasive Sampling of the Gastrointestinal Microbiome,” IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics 26 (5), 2616-2628 (2021). Best Paper Award for IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics 2021.

Dixon, A. O. Montazeri, M. Shayegannia, E. Barnard, S. Cabrini, N. Matsuura, H. Y. Holman and N. P. Kherani, “Tunable rainbow light trapping in ultrathin resonator arrays,” Light: Science and Applications 9 194 (2020). 

Martin, C. Homenick, Y. Xiang, E. Gillies and N. Matsuura, “Polyelectrolyte Coatings can Control Charged Fluorocarbon Nanodroplet Stability and their Interaction with Macrophage Cells,” Langmuir 35 (13), 4603-4612 (2019). 

Xiang, N. Bernards, B. Hoang, J. Zheng, and N. Matsuura, “Perfluorocarbon nanodroplets can reoxygenate hypoxic tumors in vivo without carbogen breathing,” Nanotheranostics 3 (2), 135-144 (2019). 

Kazemi-Zanjani, M. Shayegannia, R. Prinja, A. O. Montazeri, A. Mohammadzadeh, K. Dixon, S. Zhu, P. R. Selvaganapathy, A. Zavodni, N. Matsuura, and N. P. Kherani, “Multiwavelength Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Using Rainbow Trapping in Width-Graded Plasmonic Gratings.” Advanced Optical Materials 6 (4), 1701136 (2018). 

Amir, D. Green, J. Kenta, Y. Xiang, I. Gorelikov, M. Seo, M. Blackerd, N. Janzena, S. Czornya, J. F. Valliant, and N. Matsuura,“¹⁸F-Labeled perfluorocarbon droplets for positron emission tomography imaging.” Nuclear Medicine and Biology 54, 27-33 (2017). 

Sheeran* and Matsuura* (*co-first authors), M. A. Borden, R. Williams, T. O. Matsunaga, P. N. Burns, and P. A. Dayton, “Methods of Generating Sub-Micron Phase-Shift Perfluorocarbon Droplets for Applications in Medical Ultrasonography.” Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control 64 (1), 252-263 (2017). 

Seo, R. Williams, and N. Matsuura, “Size reduction of cosolvent-infused microbubbles to form acoustically responsive monodisperse perfluorocarbon nanodroplets.” Lab on a Chip 15, 3581-3590 (2015). 

Seo and N. Matsuura, “Direct incorporation of lipophilic nanoparticles into monodisperse, perfluorocarbon nanodroplets via solvent-dissolution from microfluidic-generated precursor microdroplets.” Langmuir 30 (42) 12465-12473 (2014). 

M. Strohm, I. Gorelikov, N. Matsuura, and M. C. Kolios, “Modeling photoacoustic spectral features of micron-sized particles,” Physics in Medicine and Biology 59, 5795-5810 (2014). 

Hill, I. Gorelikov, F. Niroui, R. B. Levitin, J. G. Mainprize, M. J. Yaffe, J. A. Rowlands, and N. Matsuura, “Feature Article: Towards a nanoscale mammographic contrast agent: development of a modular pre-clinical dual optical/x-ray agent.” Physics in Medicine and Biology 58 (15), 5215-5235 (2013). Profiled in medicalphysicsweb (http://medicalphysicsweb.org) and in Canadian Chemical News (Jan/Feb 2014). 

Williams, C. Wright, E. Cherin, N. Reznik, M. Lee, I. Gorelikov, F. S. Foster, N. Matsuura, and P. N. Burns, “Characterization of submicron phase-change perfluorocarbon droplets for extravascular ultrasound imaging of cancer.” Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology 39 (3), 475-489 (2013).

Reznik, M. Seo, R. Williams, E. Bolewska-Pedyczak, M. Lee, N. Matsuura, J. Gariepy, F. S. Foster and P. N. Burns, “Optical Studies of vaporization and stability of fluorescently labeled perfluorocarbon droplets.” Physics in Medicine and Biology 57 (21), 7205-7217 (2012). 

Strohm, I. Gorelikov, N. Matsuura, and M. Kolios, “Acoustic and photoacoustic characterization of micron-sized perfluorocarbon emulsions.” Journal of Biomedical Optics, 17 (9), 096016 (2012). 

Martin, M. Seo, R. Williams, G. Belayneh, F. S. Foster and N. Matsuura, “Intracellular growth of nanoscale perfluorocarbon droplets for enhanced ultrasound-induced phase-change conversion.” Ultrasound Medicine and Biology, 38 (10), 2704-2714 (2012).

Seo and N. Matsuura, “Monodisperse, sub-micrometer droplets via condensation of microfluidic-generated gas bubbles.” Small, 8 (17), 2704-2714 (2012). 

Gorelikov, A. L. Martin, M. Seo, and N. Matsuura, “Silica-coated quantum dots for optical evaluation of perfluorocarbon droplet interaction with cells,” Langmuir, 27 (24), 15024-15033 (2011). 

Strohm, M. Rui, I. Gorelikov, N. Matsuura, and M. Kolios, “Vaporization of perfluorocarbon droplets using optical irradiation.” Biomedical Optics Express, 2 (6), 1432-1442 (2011). 

Seo, I. Gorelikov, R. Williams, and N. Matsuura, “Microfluidic assembly of monodisperse, nanoparticle-incorporated perfluorocarbon microbubbles for medical imaging and therapy.” Langmuir, 26 (17), 13855–13860 (2010). 

Seo, I. Gorelikov, and N. Matsuura, “Nanoparticle-incorporated microbubbles as multifunctional contrast agents for medical imaging.” In Biological Imaging and Sensing Using Nanoparticle Assemblies, edited by A. Alexandrou, J. Cheon, H. Mattoussi, V. Rotello (Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Volume 1241E, Warrendale, PA, 2010), 1241-XX07-05. 

Matsuura, I. Gorelikov, R. Williams, K. Wan, S. Zhu, J. Booth, P. N. Burns, K. Hynynen, and J. A. Rowlands, “Nanoparticle-tagged perfluorocarbon droplets for medical imaging.” In Advances in Material Design for Regenerative Medicine, Drug Delivery, and Targeting/Imaging, edited by V. Prasad Shastri, Andreas Lendlein, LinShu Liu, Antonios Mikos, Samir Mitragotri (Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Volume 1140, Warrendale, PA, 2009), 1140-HH03-05.

Matsuura and J. A. Rowlands, “Towards new functional nanostructures for medical imaging.” Medical Physics, 35, 4474-4487 (2008). Selected for the September 29, 2008 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, published by the AIP and the APS, an edited compilation of links to articles covering a focused area of frontier research.

Gorelikov and N. Matsuura, “Single-step coating of mesoporous silica on cetyltrimethyl ammonium bromide-capped nanoparticles.” Nano Letters, 8, 369-373 (2008). 

Matsuura, S. Yang, P. Sun, and H. E. Ruda, “Development of highly-ordered, ferroelectric inverse opal films using sol-gel infiltration.” Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing, 81, 379 – 384 (2005).

Sun, N. Matsuura, and H. E. Ruda, “Crystallization and properties of PbO-doped Ba_0.7Sr_0.3TiO₃ films.” Journal of Applied Physics 96, 3417-3423 (2004). 

Matsuura, T. W. Simpson, I. V. Mitchell, X. Mei, P. Morales, and H. E. Ruda, “Ultra-high density, nonlithographic, sub-100 nm pattern transfer by ion implantation and selective chemical etching.” Applied Physics Letters 81, 4826-4828 (2002). 

Soten, H. Miguez, S. M. Yang, S. Petrov, N. Coombs, N. Tetreault, N. Matsuura, H. E. Ruda, G. A. Ozin, “Barium titanate inverted opals – synthesis, characterization, and optical properties.” Advanced Functional Materials 12, 71-77 (2002). 

Matsuura, T. W. Simpson, C. P. McNorgan, I. V. Mitchell, X. Mei, P. Morales and H. E. Ruda, “Nanometer-scale pattern transfer using ion implantation.” In Three-Dimensional Nanoengineered Assemblies, edited by Thomas M. Orlando, Lhadi Merhari, David P. Taylor, Koji Ikuta, (Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Volume 739: Boston, MA, Dec. 2-6, 2002). 

Matsuura, W. Zhao, Z. Huang, and J. A. Rowlands, “Digital Radiology Using Active Matrix Readout: Amplified Pixels for Fluoroscopy.” Medical Physics 26, 672-681 (1999). (Runner-Up for 1999 Sylvia Fedoruk Prize in Medical Physics.) 

Matsuura, D. J. Elliot, D. N. Furlong, and F. Grieser, “In-situ measurement of lead (II) ion binding to an arachidic acid Langmuir monolayer using a quartz crystal microbalance.” Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 126 (2-3), 189-195 (1997). 

Matsuura, D. J. Johnson, and D. T. Amm, “Fabrication of cadmium oxide films using the Langmuir-Blodgett deposition technique”. Thin Solid Films 295 (1-2), 260-265 (1997). 

M. Hood, H. Zou, R. J. Schultz, N. Matsuura, J. A. Roy, and J. A. Jackman, “Self and Hf diffusion in alpha–Zr and in dilute, Fe-free Zr (Ti) and Zr (Nb) alloys.” Defect and Diffusion Forum, Part 1 143, 49-54 (1997). 

M. Hood, H. Zou, R. J. Schultz, and N. Matsuura, “Nb diffusion in single-crystal alpha–Zr.” Defect and Diffusion Forum, Part 1 143, 55-60 (1997). 

Matsuura, G. M. Hood, and H. Zou, “The correspondence between self-diffusion properties and melting temperatures for a–Zr and a–Ti.” Journal of Nuclear Materials 238 (2-3), 260-263 (1996).

Zou, G. M. Hood, R. J. Schultz, N. Matsuura, J. A. Roy, and J. A. Jackman, “Diffusion of Hf and Nb in Zr-19%Nb.” Journal of Nuclear Materials 230 (1), 36-40 (1996). 

Hood, H. Zou, J. A. Roy, R. J. Schultz, N. Matsuura, and J. A. Jackman, “The anisotropy of Hf diffusion in a–Zr.” Journal of Nuclear Materials 228 (1), 43-46 (1996). 

Hood, R. J. Schultz, and N. Matsuura, “A positron annihilation spectroscopy study of Fe-free a-Zr thermal equilibrium and irradiation effects.” Journal of Nuclear Materials 226 (1-2), 260-262 (1995).

Amm, D. J. Johnson, N. Matsuura, T. Laursen, and G. Palmer, “Decomposition of Langmuir-Blodgett films to form metal oxide layers.” Thin Solid Films 242 (1-2), p. 74-77 (1994).