Simultaneous multicolor imaging of five different lymphatic basins using quantum dots.
作者信息
Kobayashi Hisataka, Hama Yukihiro, Koyama Yoshinori, Barrett Tristan, Regino Celeste A S, Urano Yasuteru, Choyke Peter L
机构信息
Molecular Imaging Program and Radiation Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1088, USA.
出版信息
Nano Lett. 2007 Jun;7(6):1711-6. doi: 10.1021/nl0707003. Epub 2007 May 26.
Quantum dots can be used to perform multicolor images with high fluorescent intensity and are of a nanosize suitable for lymphatic imaging via direct interstitial injection. Here simultaneous multicolor in vivo wavelength-resolved spectral fluorescence lymphangiography is shown using five quantum dots with similar physical sizes but different emission spectra. This allows noninvasive and simultaneous visualization of five separate lymphatic flows draining and may have implications for predicting the route of cancer metastasis into the lymph nodes.