Self-luminescing BRET-FRET near-infrared dots for in vivo lymph-node mapping and tumour imaging

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Xiong, Liqin ^a,b   Shuhendler, Adam J ^a   Rao, Jianghong ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLE; NEAR INFRARED NANOPARTICLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABSORPTION; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CANCER; ENERGY FLUX; FLUORESCENCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NEAR INFRARED; SCATTERING; TUMOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; BIOLUMINESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; CIRCULATION TIME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY TRANSFER; EXCITATION; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; TUMOR XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; BIOLUMINESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMANS; LUMINESCENCE; LYMPH NODES; MICE; NANOPARTICLES; NEOPLASMS; POLYMERS; QUANTUM DOTS; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED;

MUS;

EID: 84870783820     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2197     Document Type: Article

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