Hexamodal imaging with porphyrin-phospholipid-coated upconversion nanoparticles.
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SUBMITTER: Rieffel J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4416944 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Hexamodal imaging with porphyrin-phospholipid-coated upconversion nanoparticles.
Rieffel James J Chen Feng F Kim Jeesu J Chen Guanying G Shao Wei W Shao Shuai S Chitgupi Upendra U Hernandez Reinier R Graves Stephen A SA Nickles Robert J RJ Prasad Paras N PN Kim Chulhong C Cai Weibo W Lovell Jonathan F JF
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) 20150114 10
Hexamodal imaging using simple nanoparticles is demonstrated. Porphyrin-phospholipids are used to coat upconversion nanoparticles in order to generate a new biocompatible material. The nanoparticles are characterized in vitro and in vivo for imaging via fluorescence, upconversion, positron emission tomography, computed tomography, Cerenkov luminescence, and photoacoustic tomography. ...[more]
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