Sensitizing the luminescence of lanthanide-doped nanoparticles over 1500 nm for high-contrast and deep imaging of brain injury

D Song, M Zhu, S Chi, L Xia, Z Li, Z Liu - Analytical Chemistry, 2021 - ACS Publications
Real-time and in situ visualization of cerebrovascular dysfunction is significant for studying
brain injury, which however, is restricted by the complex brain structure and limited imaging …

Visualizing Oxidative Stress Level for Timely Assessment of Ischemic Stroke via a Ratiometric Near-Infrared-II Luminescent Nanoprobe

M Zhang, Z Wang, C Wang, Y Wu, Z Li, Z Liu - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Ischemic stroke (IS) characterized with high morbidity and mortality rates is considered as
one of the most dangerous brain diseases. The timely assessment of IS is crucial for making …

Tunable and enhanced NIR-II luminescence from heavily doped rare-earth nanoparticles for in vivo bioimaging

Z Zhang, Y Yang, M Zhao, L Lu, F Zhang… - ACS Applied Bio …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The last decade has witnessed the booming development of optical imaging in the second
near-infrared (NIR-II, 1000–1700 nm) window for disease screening and image-guided …

Engineering NIR-II luminescent lanthanide nanoprobes for imaging brain diseases in vivo

Y Du, S Ni, Q Ma, X Song, H Yang - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Brain research is a cutting-edge topic but it remains challenging to achieve noninvasive
sensitive diagnosis of brain diseases. Lanthanide nanocrystals (NCs) with near-infrared II …

Non-invasive optical guided tumor metastasis/vessel imaging by using lanthanide nanoprobe with enhanced down-shifting emission beyond 1500 nm

Y Li, S Zeng, J Hao - ACS nano, 2019 - ACS Publications
Visualization of tumor vessels/metastasis and cerebrovascular architecture is vitally
important for analyzing pathological states of brain diseases and a tumor's abnormal blood …

Dual modal ultra-bright nanodots with aggregation-induced emission and gadolinium-chelation for vascular integrity and leakage detection

G Feng, JLY Li, C Claser, A Balachander, Y Tan… - Biomaterials, 2018 - Elsevier
The study of blood brain barrier (BBB) functions is important for neurological disorder
research. However, the lack of suitable tools and methods has hampered the progress of …

Rare-earth Nanomaterials for Potential Brain Disease Theranostics

Z Wei, Y Liu, F Wang, K Liu, H Zhang - Chemical Research in Chinese …, 2023 - Springer
Brain diseases with high mortality cause severe threats to human health and life. Non-
invasively high-resolution imaging technologies contribute to obtaining detailed brain …

Brain tumor cell membrane‐coated lanthanide‐doped nanoparticles for NIR‐IIb luminescence imaging and surgical navigation of glioma

Z Wang, M Zhang, S Chi, M Zhu… - Advanced healthcare …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Intraoperative visualization of the full extent of brain tumor by luminescence imaging helps to
improve the degree and accuracy of brain tumor resection, thereby prolonging the survival of …

Recent advances on inorganic lanthanide-doped NIR-II fluorescence nanoprobes for bioapplication

Z Li, X Ding, H Cong, S Wang, B Yu, Y Shen - Journal of Luminescence, 2020 - Elsevier
Fluorescence imaging plays an important role in early diagnosis and surgical resection of
cancer because of its real-time, noninvasiveness, high sensitivity, and resolution. Compared …

Ultra-bright near-infrared-IIb emitting Zn-doped Ag2Te quantum dots for noninvasive monitoring of traumatic brain injury

Y Zhou, B Huang, SH Chen, SL Liu, M Zhang, R Cui - Nano Research, 2023 - Springer
The long-wavelength region of the near-infrared-IIb (NIR-IIb, 1,500–1,700 nm) imaging
window has become an ideal window for in vivo imaging due to the suppressed photon …