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A glutathione-activated NIR-II fluorescent probe for precise localization of micrometastases

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Development of a Novel HER2-Targeted Peptide Probe for Dual-Modal Imaging of Tumors

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Molecular fluorescent sensors for in vivo imaging

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Size Modulation of Conjugated Polymer Nanoparticles for Improved NIR-II Fluorescence Imaging and Photothermal Therapy

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A high‐performance cell‐labeling NIR‐II dye for in vivo cell tracking

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Comparative Study of Indocyanine Green Fluorescence Imaging in Lung Cancer with Near-Infrared-I/II Windows

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A firm-push-to-open and light-push-to-lock strategy for a general chemical platform to develop activatable dual-modality NIR-II probes

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Efficient and Stable NIR‐II Phosphorescence of Metallophilic Molecular Oligomers for In Vivo Single‐Cell Tracking and Time‐Resolved Imaging

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Near-infrared II fluorescence-guided glioblastoma surgery targeting monocarboxylate transporter 4 combined with photothermal therapy

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Near‐Infrared II Fluorescence Imaging Highlights Tumor Angiogenesis in Hepatocellular Carcinoma with a VEGFR‐Targeted Probe

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Advanced Diagnostic and Therapeutic Systems Based on Second Near-infrared Photoacoustic Imaging

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Ultralong near-infrared persistent luminescence in a Cr 3+ -doped gallogermanate for multifunctional applications

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GCN5-targeted dual-modal probe across the blood-brain barrier for borders display in invasive glioblastoma

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High-contrast in vivo fluorescence imaging exploiting wavelengths beyond 1880 nm

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Current Status and Future Developments in NIR‐II‐emitting Organic Small Molecule Fluorophores for Bioimaging and Phototherapy

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Ultrasensitive Urinary Diagnosis of Organ Injuries Using Time-Resolved Luminescent Lanthanide Nano-bioprobes

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Synthetic High‐Density Lipoprotein‐Based Nanomedicine to Silence SOCS1 in Tumor Microenvironment and Trigger Antitumor Immunity against Glioma

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Molecular Engineering of Sulfone-Xanthone Chromophore for Enhanced Fluorescence Navigation

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Near-infrared fluorescence imaging-guided lymphatic mapping in thoracic esophageal cancer surgery

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Metal‐Based Aggregation‐Induced Emission Theranostic Systems

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A review: potential application and outlook of photothermal therapy in oral cancer treatment

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Initial Experience of NIR-II Fluorescence Imaging-Guided Surgery in Foot and Ankle Surgery

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Early Diagnosis of Liver Injury and Real‐Time Evaluation of Photothermal Therapy Efficacy with a Viscosity‐Responsive NIR‐II Smart Molecule

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A Multivalent Targeting Strategy for Developing Reactive Oxygen Species‐Activated Tumor‐Seeking Probe to Guide Precise Surgical Resection

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Synthetic High‐Density Lipoprotein Mimicking Nanodiscs with Pt(IV) Prodrug Enable Tumor Targeting and cGAS‐STING Pathway Activation for Chemo‐Immunotherapy

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Advanced Image‐Guidance and Surgical‐Navigation Techniques for Real‐Time Visualized Surgery

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NIR‐II Photoactivatable Cobalt(III) Nanoparticles for Photoactivated Metal Chemo‐Immunotherapy

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Photostability investigation of a near-infrared-II heptamethine cyanine dye

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Metallo-Dye-Based Supramolecular Nanoassembly for NIR-II Cancer Theranostics

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NIR-II Imaging and Sandwiched Plasmonic Biosensor for Ultrasensitive Intraoperative Definition of Tumor-Invaded Lymph Nodes

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Water‐Soluble Aggregation‐Induced Emission Luminogens with Near‐Infrared Emission for Advanced Phototheranostics

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Tunable Wavelength, High-Brightness, and NIR-II Emission Phenanthridinium-Based Heptamethine Dyes for High-Contrast Vascular and Intestinal Imaging In Vivo

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Polystyrene‐Based Matrix to Enhance the Fluorescence of Aggregation‐Induced Emission Luminogen for Fluorescence‐Guided Surgery

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A Mitochondria-Targeted NIR-II Molecule Fluorophore for Precise Cancer Phototheranostics

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Structure Tailoring of Hemicyanine Dyes for In Vivo Shortwave Infrared Imaging

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Head‐Mounted Devices for Noninvasive Cancer Imaging and Intraoperative Image‐Guided Surgery

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Magnetic and near-infrared-II fluorescence Au–Gd nanoclusters for imaging-guided sensitization of tumor radiotherapy

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Mode-switching single-pixel imaging via a high-performance perovskite-Si dual-mode photodetector

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Optical imaging in biomedical research: guidelines and practical insights

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Energy Gap Law-Harnessing Design of Highly Second Near-Infrared Emissive 34π-Annulated Porphyrinoids for In Vivo Imaging

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Radiopharmaceutical and Eu3+ doped gadolinium oxide nanoparticles mediated triple-excited fluorescence imaging and image-guided surgery

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Shielding Unit Engineering of NIR-II Molecular Fluorophores for Improved Fluorescence Performance and Renal Excretion Ability

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NIR-II imaging of hepatocellular carcinoma based on a humanized anti-GPC3 antibody

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Visualisation of pelvic autonomic nerves using NIR-II fluorescence imaging

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Asymmetric aza-BODIPY photosensitizer for photoacoustic/photothermal imaging-guided synergistic photodynamic/photothermal therapy

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J-Aggregation induced NIR-II fluorescence: an aza-BODIPY luminogen for efficient phototheranostics

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A FRET-Based Ratiometric H 2 S Sensor for Sensitive Optical Molecular Imaging in Second Near-Infrared Window

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Progress and Challenges of Water-soluble NIR-II Organic Fluorophores for Fluorescence Imaging in vivo

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Rational Design of NIR‐II Emitting Conjugated Polymer Derived Nanoparticles for Image‐Guided Cancer Interventions

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Optical molecular imaging technology and its application in precise surgical navigation of liver cancer

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Rare-earth Doped Nanoparticles with Narrow NIR-II Emission for Optical Imaging with Reduced Autofluorescence

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A Small‐Molecule Diketopyrrolopyrrole‐Based Dye for in vivo NIR‐IIa Fluorescence Bioimaging

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Shortwave infrared spatial frequency domain imaging for non-invasive measurement of tissue and blood optical properties

Pilvar, A., Plutzky, J., Pierce, M. C., & Roblyer, D. M. (2022) · Journal of Biomedical Optics · doi:10.1117/1.jbo.27.6.066003 · Cited by 20

Access to Diverse Activatable Heptamethine Cyanine Probes with Low Intrinsic Fluorescence via 5‐ exo‐trig Cyclization Strategy for High‐Contrast Bioimaging In Vivo

Wu, F., Zheng, B., Qiu, X., Hu, T., Yang, Y., Yang, K., Zhou, B., Ma, Q., Pang, D., & Xiong, H. (2025) · Angewandte Chemie International Edition · doi:10.1002/anie.202423059 · Cited by 18

Cadherin 17 Nanobody-Mediated Near-Infrared-II Fluorescence Imaging-Guided Surgery and Immunotoxin Delivery for Colorectal Cancer

Ding, Y., Zhou, R., Shi, G., Jiang, Y., Li, Z., Xu, X., Ma, J., Huang, J., Fu, C., Zhou, H., et al. (2024) · Biomaterials Research · doi:10.34133/bmr.0041 · Cited by 18

Trends in cancer imaging

Zhou, X., Shi, B., Huang, G., Liu, J., & Wei, W. (2024) · Trends in cancer · doi:10.1016/j.trecan.2024.08.006 · Cited by 18

Suppressing Reverse Intersystem Crossing by Confining Organic Molecules within LDH Interlayers for Near‐Infrared‐II Photodynamic Immunotherapy

Hu, T., Wang, T., Chan, L., Yu, L., Xie, H., Li, M., Yang, Y.-S., Su, L., Zhang, X., Song, J., et al. (2025) · Advanced Materials · doi:10.1002/adma.202514105 · Cited by 18

Ultralong-Circulating and Self-Targeting “Watson–Crick A = T”-Inspired Supramolecular Nanotheranostics for NIR-II Imaging-Guided Photochemotherapy

Xue, K., Tian, H., Zhu, F., Wang, F., Fan, Z., Zhao, Q., Hou, Z., & Li, Y. (2020) · ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces · doi:10.1021/acsami.0c09090 · Cited by 18

A New Class of NIR‐II Gold Nanocluster‐Based Protein Biolabels for In Vivo Tumor‐Targeted Imaging

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NIR-II and visible fluorescence hybrid imaging-guided surgery via aggregation-induced emission fluorophores cocktails

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NIR-II nano fluorescence image guided hepatic carcinoma resection on cirrhotic patient

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P800SO3-PEG: a renal clearable bone-targeted fluorophore for theranostic imaging

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Recent advances in lanthanide-doped up-conversion probes for theranostics

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Near-Infrared Fluorescence Imaging of Pancreatic Cancer Using a Fluorescently Labelled Anti-CEA Nanobody Probe: A Preclinical Study

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Tracking of Intestinal Probiotics In Vivo by NIR-IIb Fluorescence Imaging

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Targeted Near-Infrared Fluorescence Imaging of Liver Cancer using Dual-Peptide-Functionalized Albumin Particles

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