Color-tunable Gd-Zn-Cu-In-S/ZnS quantum dots for dual modality magnetic resonance and fluorescence imaging

Nano Research

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1581-1591

  Guo, Weisheng ^a,b   Yang, Weitao ^a   Wang, Yu ^d   Sun, Xiaolian ^b   Liu, Zhongyun ^a   Zhang, Bingbo ^c   Chang, Jin ^a   Chen, Xiaoyuan ^b  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL IMAGING AND BIOENGINEERING   (United States)

^c TONGJI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^d MEDICAL SCHOOL OF SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

CuInS2 quantum dot; gadolinium doped; magnetic resonance imaging; multimodality imaging; photoluminescence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911805739     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-014-0518-8     Document Type: Article

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