Recent advance of biological molecular imaging based on lanthanide-doped upconversion-luminescent nanomaterials

• Main Authors: Xing, Bengang, Min, Yuanzeng, Li, Jinming, Liu, Fang, Padmanabhan, Parasuraman, Yeow, Edwin
• Other Authors: Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Medicine
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/103766; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/19289
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Lanthanide-doped upconversion-luminescent nanoparticles (UCNPs), which can be excited by near-infrared (NIR) laser irradiation to emit multiplex light, have been proven to be very useful for in vitro and in vivo molecular imaging studies. In comparison with the conventionally used down-conversion...