Medical Imaging of Microrobots: Toward In Vivo Applications

A Aziz, S Pane, V Iacovacci, N Koukourakis… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Medical microrobots (MRs) have been demonstrated for a variety of non-invasive biomedical
applications, such as tissue engineering, drug delivery, and assisted fertilization, among …

[HTML][HTML] Quantum dots: bright and versatile in vitro and in vivo fluorescence imaging biosensors

KD Wegner, N Hildebrandt - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) have become important fluorescent probes for in vitro
and in vivo bioimaging research. Their nanoparticle surfaces for versatile bioconjugation …

Toward biocompatible semiconductor quantum dots: from biosynthesis and bioconjugation to biomedical application

J Zhou, Y Yang, C Zhang - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
The understanding of biological systems at the molecular scale is increasingly reliant on the
capability of tracking miscellaneous biomolecules and their events with improved spatial …

Semiconductor and carbon-based fluorescent nanodots: the need for consistency

A Cayuela, ML Soriano, C Carrillo-Carrión… - Chemical …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Fluorescent nanodots have become increasingly prevalent in a wide variety of applications
with special interest in analytical and biomedical fields. The present overview focuses on …

Aqueous based semiconductor nanocrystals

L Jing, SV Kershaw, Y Li, X Huang, Y Li… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
This review summarizes traditional and recent nonconventional, bioinspired, methods for the
aqueous synthesis of colloidal semiconductor quantum dots (QDs). The basic chemistry …

The unique role of nanoparticles in nanomedicine: imaging, drug delivery and therapy

TL Doane, C Burda - Chemical Society Reviews, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
This critical review will present the role of nanoparticles (NPs) in the directions that are vital
to the new field of nanomedicine, including imaging and drug delivery. We reflect on the …

Phototheranostics for multifunctional treatment of cancer with fluorescence imaging

X Yin, Y Cheng, Y Feng, WR Stiles, SH Park… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Phototheranostics stem from the recent advances in nanomedicines and bioimaging to
diagnose and treat human diseases. Since tumors' diversity, heterogeneity, and instability …

The cytotoxicity of cadmium-based quantum dots

N Chen, Y He, Y Su, X Li, Q Huang, H Wang, X Zhang… - Biomaterials, 2012 - Elsevier
Semiconductor Quantum dots (QDs) have raised great attention because of their superior
optical properties and wide utilization in biological and biomedical studies. More recently …

Quantum dots as a platform for nanoparticle drug delivery vehicle design

CE Probst, P Zrazhevskiy, V Bagalkot, X Gao - Advanced drug delivery …, 2013 - Elsevier
Nanoparticle-based drug delivery (NDD) has emerged as a promising approach to
improving upon the efficacy of existing drugs and enabling the development of new …

Recent advances on fluorescent biomarkers of near-infrared quantum dots for in vitro and in vivo imaging

S Chinnathambi, N Shirahata - Science and technology of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Luminescence probe has been broadly used for bio-imaging applications. Among them,
near-infrared (NIR) quantum dots (QDs) are more attractive due to minimal tissue …