Extremely High Brightness from Polymer-Encapsulated Quantum Dots for Two-photon Cellular and Deep-tissue Imaging

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Fan, Yanyan ^a,c   Liu, Helin ^b   Han, Rongcheng ^a   Huang, Lu ^a   Shi, Hao ^a   Sha, Yinlin ^b   Jiang, Yuqiang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^c SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYMER; QUANTUM DOT;

CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; HEP-G2 CELL LINE; HUMAN; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; PHOTON; TUMOR CELL LINE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL SURVIVAL; HEP G2 CELLS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; PHOTONS; POLYMERS; QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84928566577     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep09908     Document Type: Article

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