Radioluminescent nanophosphors enable multiplexed small-animal imaging

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 11598-11604

  Carpenter, Colin M ^a   Sun, Conroy ^a   Pratx, Guillem ^a   Liu, Hongguang ^b   Cheng, Zhen ^b   Xing, Lei ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MULTIPLEXING; NANOPARTICLES; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; SEPARATION;

CERENKOV; CONTRAST AGENT; GELATIN PHANTOMS; HIGH RESOLUTION; LIVING ORGANISMS; MOLECULAR PROCESS; NANOPHOSPHORS; OPTICAL LIGHT; SMALL ANIMAL; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING; X RAY IRRADIATION; X-RAY EXCITATION;

ANIMALS;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; NANOPARTICLE; RADIOISOTOPE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; IMAGE QUALITY; LUMINESCENCE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

CONTRAST MEDIA; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; NANOPARTICLES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84861497661     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.011598     Document Type: Article

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