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SUBMITTER: Kim S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2346610 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature biotechnology 20031207 1
The use of near-infrared or infrared photons is a promising approach for biomedical imaging in living tissue. This technology often requires exogenous contrast agents with combinations of hydrodynamic diameter, absorption, quantum yield and stability that are not possible with conventional organic fluorophores. Here we show that the fluorescence emission of type II quantum dots can be tuned into the near infrared while preserving absorption cross-section, and that a polydentate phosphine coating ...[more]