Rebekah A. Drezek

17.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
127 papers, 14.1k citations indexed

About

Rebekah A. Drezek is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Rebekah A. Drezek has authored 127 papers receiving a total of 14.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 39 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 37 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Rebekah A. Drezek's work include Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (37 papers), Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging (29 papers) and Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques (29 papers). Rebekah A. Drezek is often cited by papers focused on Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (37 papers), Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging (29 papers) and Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques (29 papers). Rebekah A. Drezek collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Belarus. Rebekah A. Drezek's co-authors include Vicki L. Colvin, Nastassja A. Lewinski, Jennifer L. West, Naomi J. Halas, Christopher Loo, Emmanuel Chang, Amanda Lowery, Rebecca Richards‐Kortum, William W. Yu and André M. Gobin and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nano Letters and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Rebekah A. Drezek

122 papers receiving 13.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Cytotoxicity of Nanoparticles

2007 2.2k citations Vicki L. Colvin, Rebekah A. Drezek et al. profile →
Immunotargeted Nanoshells for Integrated Cancer Imaging and Therapy

2005 1.4k citations Christopher Loo, Amanda Lowery et al. Nano Letters profile →
Near-Infrared Resonant Nanoshells for Combined Optical Imaging and Photothermal Cancer Therapy

2007 1.1k citations André M. Gobin, Min Ho Lee et al. Nano Letters profile →
Nanoshell-Enabled Photonics-Based Imaging and Therapy of Cancer

2004 840 citations Christopher Loo, Alex W. H. Lin et al. profile →
A New Era for Cancer Treatment: Gold‐Nanoparticle‐Mediated Thermal Therapies

2010 719 citations Lissett R. Bickford, Ying Hu et al. profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rebekah A. Drezek United States	50	7.9k	5.1k	4.1k	3.3k	3.1k	127	14.1k
Jesse V. Jokerst United States	48	7.9k 1.0×	3.7k 0.7×	1.6k 0.4×	2.6k 0.8×	3.1k 1.0×	179	12.1k
Konstantin Sokolov United States	55	6.0k 0.8×	3.2k 0.6×	3.3k 0.8×	1.7k 0.5×	2.2k 0.7×	201	10.6k
Nikolai G. Khlebtsov Russia	52	6.7k 0.9×	4.3k 0.8×	5.6k 1.4×	2.1k 0.6×	3.1k 1.0×	281	12.2k
Jesús M. de la Fuente Spain	70	6.0k 0.8×	5.6k 1.1×	2.5k 0.6×	4.5k 1.4×	5.6k 1.8×	279	15.4k
Chenjie Xu Singapore	62	6.2k 0.8×	4.9k 1.0×	1.3k 0.3×	4.1k 1.3×	3.9k 1.2×	223	15.5k
Ivan H. El‐Sayed United States	37	12.6k 1.6×	8.8k 1.7×	12.0k 2.9×	4.6k 1.4×	5.3k 1.7×	160	24.0k
Tuan Vo‐Dinh United States	74	10.5k 1.3×	3.7k 0.7×	8.3k 2.0×	1.0k 0.3×	6.7k 2.1×	561	19.2k
Samuel Achilefu United States	65	6.4k 0.8×	4.3k 0.8×	914 0.2×	1.7k 0.5×	4.0k 1.3×	337	14.8k
Zhen Cheng United States	81	12.8k 1.6×	9.3k 1.8×	2.0k 0.5×	3.0k 0.9×	6.3k 2.0×	446	23.8k
Xiaohu Gao United States	51	7.0k 0.9×	10.1k 2.0×	2.2k 0.5×	3.3k 1.0×	8.2k 2.6×	136	18.3k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Drezek, Rebekah A., et al.. (2024). Simulation-guided tunable DNA probe design for mismatch tolerant hybridization. PLoS ONE. 19(8). e0305002–e0305002.

Tang, Yuqi, et al.. (2018). An inexpensive, customizable microscopy system for the automated quantification and characterization of multiple adherent cell types. PeerJ. 6. e4937–e4937. 3 indexed citations

Figueroa, Elizabeth R., et al.. (2017). A mechanistic investigation exploring the differential transfection efficiencies between the easy-to-transfect SK-BR3 and difficult-to-transfect CT26 cell lines. Journal of Nanobiotechnology. 15(1). 36–36. 21 indexed citations

Figueroa, Elizabeth R., et al.. (2014). Optimization of PAMAM-gold nanoparticle conjugation for gene therapy. Biomaterials. 35(5). 1725–1734. 72 indexed citations

Lin, Adam Yuh, Adham S. Bear, Joseph K. Young, et al.. (2013). High-density sub-100-nm peptide-gold nanoparticle complexes improve vaccine presentation by dendritic cells in vitro. Nanoscale Research Letters. 8(1). 72–72. 65 indexed citations

Agrawal, Anant, et al.. (2010). Three-dimensional characterization of optical coherence tomography point spread functions with a nanoparticle-embedded phantom. Optics Letters. 35(13). 2269–2269. 42 indexed citations

Pfefer, T. Joshua, Quanzeng Wang, & Rebekah A. Drezek. (2010). Monte Carlo modeling of time-resolved fluorescence for depth-selective interrogation of layered tissue. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. 104(2). 161–167. 5 indexed citations

Hu, Ying, et al.. (2010). Symmetry Breaking in Gold−Silica−Gold Multilayer Nanoshells. ACS Nano. 4(3). 1521–1528. 101 indexed citations

Bickford, Lissett R., et al.. (2009). Silica-gold nanoshells as potential intraoperative molecular probes for HER2-overexpression in ex vivo breast tissue using near-infrared reflectance confocal microscopy. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. 120(3). 547–555. 33 indexed citations

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Hafner, Jason H., et al.. (2009). Plasmon nanoparticle-generated photothermal bubbles as universal biomedical agents. TechConnect Briefs. 2(2009). 158–161. 1 indexed citations

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Yu, William W., Emmanuel Chang, Joshua C. Falkner, et al.. (2007). Forming Biocompatible and Nonaggregated Nanocrystals in Water Using Amphiphilic Polymers. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 129(10). 2871–2879. 436 indexed citations

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Wang, Adrien, et al.. (2007). Targeting spectral signatures of progressively dysplastic stratified epithelia using angularly variable fiber geometry in reflectance Monte Carlo simulations. Journal of Biomedical Optics. 12(4). 44012–44012. 19 indexed citations

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Sun, Jiantang, Kun Fu, Adrien Wang, et al.. (2006). Influence of fiber optic probe geometry on the applicability of inverse models of tissue reflectance spectroscopy: computational models and experimental measurements. Applied Optics. 45(31). 8152–8152. 18 indexed citations

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Gobin, André M., Min Ho Lee, Rebekah A. Drezek, Naomi J. Halas, & Jennifer L. West. (2006). Nanoshells for Integrated Cancer Imaging and Therapy. Clinical Cancer Research. 12. 4 indexed citations

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Loo, Christopher, Amanda Lowery, Naomi J. Halas, Jennifer L. West, & Rebekah A. Drezek. (2005). Immunotargeted Nanoshells for Integrated Cancer Imaging and Therapy. Nano Letters. 5(4). 709–711. 1406 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bender, Janelle E., et al.. (2005). Depth-sensitive reflectance measurements using obliquely oriented fiber probes. Journal of Biomedical Optics. 10(4). 44017–44017. 36 indexed citations

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Pfefer, T. Joshua, et al.. (2004). Influence of illumination-collection geometry on fluorescence spectroscopy in multilayer tissue. Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing. 42(5). 669–673. 14 indexed citations

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Drezek, Rebekah A., Konstantin Sokolov, Urs Utzinger, et al.. (2001). Understanding the contributions of NADH and collagen to cervical tissue fluorescence spectra: Modeling, measurements, and implications. Journal of Biomedical Optics. 6(4). 385–385. 223 indexed citations

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Drezek, Rebekah A., Andrew K. Dunn, & Rebecca Richards‐Kortum. (1999). Light scattering from cells: finite-difference time-domain simulations and goniometric measurements. Applied Optics. 38(16). 3651–3651. 238 indexed citations

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Collier, Tom, et al.. (1998). Fiber-optic confocal microscope for biological imaging. 128–129. 7 indexed citations

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