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Water-soluble silicon nanocrystals as NIR luminescent probes for time-gated biomedical imaging

Published:2020 Issue:14 Volume:12 Page:7921-7926
ISSN:2040-3364
Container-title:Nanoscale
language:en
Short-container-title:Nanoscale

Author:

Romano Francesco¹²³⁴,Angeloni Sara¹²³⁴,Morselli Giacomo¹²³⁴^ORCID,Mazzaro Raffaello¹²³⁴⁵^ORCID,Morandi Vittorio⁵⁶⁴^ORCID,Shell Jennifer R.⁷⁸⁹¹⁰¹¹,Cao Xu⁷⁸⁹¹⁰¹¹,Pogue Brian W.⁷⁸⁹¹⁰¹¹,Ceroni Paola¹²³⁴^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Chemistry “Giacomo Ciamician”

2. University of Bologna

3. 40126 Bologna

4. Italy

5. CNR-IMM Bologna

6. Bologna

7. Center for Imaging Medicine

8. Thayer School of Engineering

9. Dartmouth College

10. Hanover

11. USA

Abstract

In vivo studies demonstrated tumor accumulation of luminescent SiNCs, 48 hours clearance and a 3-fold improvement of signal-to-noise ratio in time-gated imaging compared to steady-state acquisition, demonstrating their potentiality for luminescence guided surgery.

Funder

Università di Bologna

Horizon 2020 Framework Programme

National Institutes of Health

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Materials Science

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2020/NR/D0NR00814A

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