Deep-tissue anatomical imaging of mice using carbon nanotube fluorophores in the second near-infrared window

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 8943-8948

  Welsher, Kevin ^a   Sherlock, Sarah P ^a   Dai, Hongjie ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deep tissue imaging; Dynamic contrast imaging; Near infrared imaging; Photoluminescence; Principal component analysis imaging

Indexed keywords

SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VIVO STUDY; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOUSE; MUSCLE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS; PHANTOM; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FLUORESCENT DYES; INFRARED RAYS; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MICE; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MONONUCLEAR PHAGOCYTE SYSTEM; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPLEEN;

MUS;

EID: 79959355547     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1014501108     Document Type: Article

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