Semiconductor quantum dots for bioimaging and biodiagnostic applications

Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry

Volumn 6, Issue , 2013, Pages 143-162

  Kairdolf, Brad A ^a   Smith, Andrew M ^a   Stokes, Todd H ^b   Wang, May D ^b   Young, Andrew N ^c   Nie, Shuming ^a  

^a Emory University   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer detection; cellular dynamics; fluorescence imaging; multiplexing; nanotechnology; single cell analysis

Indexed keywords

BIO MEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS; BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; CANCER DETECTION; CELLULAR DYNAMICS; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL AND ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; SINGLECELL ANALYSIS;

ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MULTIPLEXING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOBLEACHING; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

FLUORESCENCE;

CADMIUM DERIVATIVE; CADMIUM SELENIDE; CADMIUM TELLURIDE; DNA; MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; NANOPARTICLE; QUANTUM DOT; SELENIUM DERIVATIVE; TELLURIUM; TUMOR MARKER;

CHEMISTRY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NEOPLASM; PROSTATE; REVIEW; SEMICONDUCTOR;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DNA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NEOPLASMS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; PROSTATE; QUANTUM DOTS; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTORS; TELLURIUM; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84879673305     PISSN: 19361327     EISSN: 19361335     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-anchem-060908-155136     Document Type: Article

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