Nature Communications (Aug 2020)
NIR-II bioluminescence for in vivo high contrast imaging and in situ ATP-mediated metastases tracing
Abstract
Conventional bioluminescence imaging usually operates in the visible region and its performance is limited by strong tissue absorption and scattering. Here, the authors present bioluminescence probes (BPs) with emission in the second near infrared (NIR-II) region, and show the NIR-II-BPs could sensitively recognize tumor metastasis with a high tumor-to-normal tissue ratio.