Recent advances in rare-earth-doped nanoparticles for NIR-II imaging and cancer theranostics

Author(s):
Yu, Z.F.; Eich, C.; Cruz, L.J.
Published
2020
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

Abstract

Fluorescence imaging in the second near infrared window (NIR-II, 1,000-1,700 nm) has been widely used in cancer diagnosis and treatment due to its high spatial resolution and deep tissue penetration depths. In this work, recent advances in rare-earth-doped nanoparticles (RENPs)-a novel kind of NIR-II nanoprobes-are presented. The main focus of this study is on the modification of RENPs and their applications in NIR-IIin vitroandin vivoimaging and cancer theranostics. Finally, the perspectives and challenges of NIR-II RENPs are discussed.

NIR-IIrare-earth-doped nanoparticlesmodificationin vitroandin vivoimagingcancer theranostics
Date issued
2020-06-17
Language
English
Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
Is part of
Frontiers in Chemistry
hdl
1887/3184213
doi
10.3389/fchem.2020.00496
URL
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fchem.2020.00496/full