• DocumentCode
    2094755
  • Title

    In vivo luminescence imaging and tomography using upconverting nanoparticles as contrast agents

  • Author

    Andersson-Engels, Stefan ; Haichun Liu ; Xu, Can T. ; Svenmarker, P. ; Gisselsson, A. ; Kjellman, Pontus ; Andersson, Lars ; in´t Zandt, Rene ; Olsson, F. ; Fredriksson, Sarah

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., Lund Univ., Lund, Sweden
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    7-10 Nov. 2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    Upconverting nanoparticles have recently drawn increasingly attention as contrast agents for optical bioimaging. They enable autofluorescence-free imaging within the tissue optical window, and improved spatial resolution as compared to conventional fluorescence-based contrast agents.
  • Keywords
    biological tissues; biomedical optical imaging; fluorescence; nanomedicine; nanoparticles; optical tomography; autofluorescence-free imaging; conventional fluorescence-based contrast agents; luminescence imaging; optical bioimaging; spatial resolution; tissue optical window; tomography; upconverting nanoparticles;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), 2012 Asia
  • Conference_Location
    Guangzhou
  • ISSN
    2162-108X
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-6274-0
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6510830