Radiation-luminescence-excited quantum dots for in vivo multiplexed optical imaging.

Recently,QDshavedrawnmuchattentionfortheirpotentialbiomedicalapplications and have been widely explored as effectivefluorescent sensors for real-time detection of biomolecules,for the staining ofbiological tissues and formolecular imagingof biological pathways or disease progression in vitro and invivo.

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