Quantum dots versus organic fluorophores in fluorescent deep-tissue imaging - Merits and demerits

General Physiology and Biophysics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 231-242

  Bakalova, Rumiana ^a   Zhelev, Zhivko ^a   Gadjeva, Veselina ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b TRAKIA UNIVERSITY   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Fluorescence; Fluorescent deep tissue imaging; Fluorescent molecular probes; Quantum dots

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; NANOPARTICLE; QUANTUM DOT;

DEEP TISSUE IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR PROBE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 60149094977     PISSN: 02315882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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