High-resolution fluorescence diffuse optical tomography developed with nonlinear upconverting nanoparticles

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 4788-4795

  Xu, Can T ^a   Svenmarker, Pontus ^a   Liu, Haichun ^a   Wu, Xia ^a   Messing, Maria E ^a   Wallenberg, L Reine ^a   Andersson Engels, Stefan ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

bioimaging; diffuse imaging; quantum yield; resolution; upconversion nanoparticles

Indexed keywords

BIO-IMAGING; BIOMEDICAL IMAGING; CONTRAST AGENT; CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT; CORE-SHELL; CORE-SHELL NANOPARTICLES; CORE-SHELL PARTICLE; CURRENT RESOLUTION; EMISSION BANDS; EXCITATION INTENSITY; FLUORESCENCE DIFFUSE OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENT MOLECULES; HEXAGONAL PHASE; HIGH RESOLUTION; OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; OPTICAL EMISSIONS; RECONSTRUCTION IMAGE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TISSUE PHANTOM; UP-CONVERSION;

EXPERIMENTS; FLUORESCENCE; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; QUANTUM YIELD; TISSUE; YTTERBIUM;

SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; LANTHANIDE; NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; SYNTHESIS;

CONTRAST MEDIA; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METALS, RARE EARTH; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NANOPARTICLES; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 84862864134     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn3015807     Document Type: Article

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