Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Organic NIR-II molecule with long blood half-life for in vivo dynamic vascular imaging

  • Benhao Li,
  • Mengyao Zhao,
  • Lishuai Feng,
  • Chaoran Dou,
  • Suwan Ding,
  • Gang Zhou,
  • Lingfei Lu,
  • Hongxin Zhang,
  • Feiya Chen,
  • Xiaomin Li,
  • Guangfeng Li,
  • Shichang Zhao,
  • Chunyu Jiang,
  • Yan Wang,
  • Dongyuan Zhao,
  • Yingsheng Cheng,
  • Fan Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16924-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Optical bioimaging in the second near-infrared (NIR-II, 1000–1700 nm) window exhibits abundant advantages. Here the authors report an organic NIR-II molecule with long blood circulation half-life time for continuous real-time monitoring of dynamic vascular processes.