Fluorescence imaging in vivo: recent advances

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 17-25

  Rao, Jianghong ^a   Dragulescu Andrasi, Anca ^a   Yao, Hequan ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL NANOPARTICLES; INDOCARBOCYANINE DYES; MULTIMODALITY; PHOTON ATTENUATION;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CAMERAS; DYES; FLUORESCENCE; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHOTONS;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

5 BROMO 4 CHLORO 3 INDOLYL BETA DEXTRO GALACTOSIDE; 9H (1,3 DICHLORO 9,9 DIMETHYLACRIDIN 2 ONE 7 YL) BETA DEXTRO GALACTOPYRANOSIDE; AO 1987; ARGINYLGLYCYLASPARTIC ACID; BENZOTHIAZOLE; BENZOXAZOLE DERIVATIVE; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; BETA LACTAMASE TEM 1; BIOTIN; DYE; FOLATE RECEPTOR; GELATINASE A; INDOCARBOCYANINE; INDOCYANINE GREEN; LUCIFERIN; NANOPARTICLE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING AGENT; OXAZINE DERIVATIVE; QUANTUM DOT; RENILLA LUCIFERIN 2 MONOOXYGENASE; STREPTAVIDIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR;

CAMERA; COMBINATORIAL LIBRARY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; IMAGING; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; PROTEOMICS; REPORTER GENE; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TUMOR XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; INFRARED RAYS; NANOPARTICLES; QUANTUM DOTS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33846926304     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2007.01.003     Document Type: Review

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