Synthesis and Properties of Sulfhydryl-Reactive Near-Infrared Cyanine Fluorochromes for Fluorescence Imaging

Near-infrared fluorochromes (NIRF) are useful compounds for diverse biotechnology applications and for in vivo biomedical imaging. Such NIRF must have high quantum yield, be biocompatible, and be conjugatable to a wide variety of proteins, peptides, and other affinity ligands. Here, we describe the...

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Main Authors: Yuhui Lin, Ralph Weissleder, Ching-Hsuan Tung
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi - SAGE Publishing 2003-04-01
Series:Molecular Imaging
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1162/15353500200303121