Hybrid lanthanide polyoxotungstate core/shell nanoparticles for fluorescence-based bioimaging Ghent University
Fluorescence bioimaging is a powerful tool in early stage diagnosis of diseases such as cancer or cardiovascular problems. Lanthanide ions have unique properties, which make them suitable for designing fluorescence bioimaging probes. Up until now mostly lanthanides, which emit in a region visible to the human eye, have been explored for this purpose. Creating lanthanide based bioimaging probes, which emit in the near-infrared (NIR) region of ...