Enhancement of Cerenkov Luminescence Imaging by Dual Excitation of Er3+, Yb3+-Doped Rare-Earth Microparticles

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Ma, Xiaowei ^a   Kang, Fei ^a   Xu, Feng ^b   Feng, Ailing ^b   Zhao, Ying ^b   Lu, Tianjian ^b   Yang, Weidong ^a   Wang, Zhe ^a   Lin, Min ^b   Wang, Jing ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; SODIUM IODIDE I 131; TECHNETIUM 99M; YTTERBIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CERENKOV LUMINESCENCE IMAGING; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG SYNTHESIS; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LUMINESCENCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PSEUDOTUMOR; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOISOTOPE DECAY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SKIN PENETRATION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANIMALS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ERBIUM; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSPHERES; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION; YTTERBIUM;

EID: 84886428619     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077926     Document Type: Article

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