Fluorescent materials for short-wave infrared imaging

Our understanding of the fundamental processes that drive biology and medicine is, in large part, based on our ability to visualize biological structures and monitor their transformations over time. Fluorescence imaging is one of the most transformative technologies of modern biomedical imaging as it provides a low cost, high sensitivity method for real-time molecular imaging in vivo. As the scattering and absorption of light through biological tissue impose significant restrictions on imaging penetration depth, acquisition speed, and spatial resolution, the development of novel optical imaging technologies has increasingly shifted toward the use of light of longer wavelengths. Fluorescence imaging in the shortwave infrared (SWIR, 1000 - 2000 nm) spectral region mitigates the negative effects of light attenuation and benefits from a general lack of tissue autofluorescence.

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Doctoral

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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2018

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• Franke, Daniel.

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• Moungi G. Bawendi.

• Chemistry.

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• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/121616

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/121616