Engineering NIR dyes for fluorescent lifetime contrast

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 114-117

  Berezin, Mikhail Y ^a   Lee, Hyeran ^a   Akers, Walter ^a   Guo, Kevin ^a   Goiffon, Reece J ^a   Almutairi, Adah ^b   Fréchet, Jean M J ^c   Achilefu, Samuel ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; FLUORESCENCE;

FLUORESCENCE LIFETIMES; FLUORESCENT LIFETIME; INTER-SYSTEM CROSSINGS; MEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS; NIR DYES; NON-RADIATIVE; ORGANIC MOLECULES; SUCCESSFUL MANAGEMENT;

EXCITED STATES;

EID: 77951007668     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5334834     Document Type: Conference Paper

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