Upconversion luminescence imaging of cells and small animals

Nature Protocols

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2033-2044

  Liu, Qian ^a   Feng, Wei ^a   Yang, Tianshe ^a   Yi, Tao ^a   Li, Fuyou ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HELA CELL; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LASER MICROSCOPE; LUMINESCENCE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NANOFABRICATION; NANOPROBE; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; UPCONVERSION LUMINESCENCE;

ANIMALS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTONS;

EID: 84884994312     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2013.114     Document Type: Article

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