Luminescence imaging in biomedical research has allowed new insights into the
architecture of pathological tissues, signalling networks and cell interactions, and is now …

Surgical resection of cancer remains an important treatment modality. Despite advances in
preoperative imaging, surgery itself is primarily guided by the surgeon's ability to locate …

The design of new molecules for photochemical studies typically requires knowledge of
spectral features of pertinent chromophores beginning with the absorption spectrum (λabs) …

Conspectus Near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence light has been widely utilized in clinical
imaging by providing surgeons highly specific images of target tissue. The “NIR window” …

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a method of cancer treatment that leads to the disintegration
of cancer cells and has developed significantly in recent years. The clinically used …

Structure-inherent targeting (SIT) agents are of particular importance for clinical precision
medicine; however, there still exists a great lack of SIT phototheranostics for simultaneous …

Cancer is a group of diseases responsible for the major causes of mortality and morbidity
among people of all ages. Even though medical sciences have made enormous growth …

Among modalities of cancer immunotherapy, near‐infrared photoimmunotherapy (NIR‐PIT)
has reached significant preclinical and clinical stages and quickly evolved over the last 5 …

We have synthesized and characterized a library of near-infrared (NIR) heptamethine
cyanine dyes for biomedical application as photoacoustic imaging and photothermal agents …

Cyanine dyes represent a family of organic fluorophores with widespread utility in biological-
based applications ranging from real-time PCR probes to protein labeling. One burgeoning …