Through-skull fluorescence imaging of the brain in a new near-infrared window

Nature Photonics

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 723-730

  Hong, Guosong ^a   Diao, Shuo ^a   Chang, Junlei ^b   Antaris, Alexander L ^a   Chen, Changxin ^a   Zhang, Bo ^a   Zhao, Su ^a   Atochin, Dmitriy N ^c   Huang, Paul L ^c   Andreasson, Katrin I ^d   Kuo, Calvin J ^b   Dai, Hongjie ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; BRAIN MAPPING; FLUORESCENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAMMALS; NEUROIMAGING; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

CEREBRAL VASCULATURE; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSIONS; NEAR INFRARED REGION; REAL-TIME ASSESSMENT; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

INFRARED DEVICES;

EID: 84906889401     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2014.166     Document Type: Article

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