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Mechanochemical Acceptor Engineering for NIR-I and NIR-II Fluorophores Enabling Orthogonal Ureter-Vascular Image-Guided Surgery

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Indocyanine green inhalation visualizes lung tumour during video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery

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High-Performance Hybrid Phototheranostics for NIR-IIb Fluorescence Imaging and NIR-II-Excitable Photothermal Therapy

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Enhancing NIR-II Imaging and Photothermal Therapy for Improved Oral Cancer Theranostics by Combining TICT and Aggregation-Induced Emission

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Comparison of the In Vitro and In Vivo Behavior of a Series of NIR-II-Emitting Aza-BODIPYs Containing Different Water-Solubilizing Groups and Their Trastuzumab Antibody Conjugates

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Novel Near-Infrared Fluorescent Probe for Hepatocyte Growth Factor in Vivo Imaging in Surgical Navigation of Colorectal Cancer

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Preclinical advance in nanoliposome-mediated photothermal therapy in liver cancer

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A new EGFR and c-Met bispecific NIR-II fluorescent probe for visualising colorectal cancer and metastatic lymph nodes

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Innate Immunity‐Guided Macrophage‐Homing Nanoplatform for Oral Tumor Immunotherapy and Real‐Time Deep‐Tissue Imaging in Pre‐Clinical Models

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A meta-analysis of short-term and long-term effects of indocyanine green fluorescence imaging in hepatectomy for liver cancer

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Single-dye NIR-II chemiluminescence system for H 2 O 2 imaging

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Biodegradable mesoporous Co3O4 based nanocarriers with intrinsic lung carcinoma suppression for NIR II fluorescence bioimaging and photothermal augmented photodynamic therapy

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Clinically Translatable Solid‐State Dye for NIR‐II Imaging of Medical Devices

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A Rationally Designed Prodrug for the Fluorogenic Labeling of Albumin and Theranostic Effects on Drug-Induced Liver Injury

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Advances and Perspectives of Peptide and Polypeptide‐Based Materials for Biomedical Imaging

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An Activatable Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Nanocomposite as Early Evaluation System of Therapy Effect

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Yb/Er/Ho-engineered rare earth fluoride nanoparticles to unlock multimodal in vivo medical imaging

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Atomically Precise Metal Clusters for NIR-II Imaging

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Optimization of ODAP-Urea-based dual-modality PSMA targeting probes for sequential PET-CT and optical imaging

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Monitoring Neovascularization of Malignant Solid Tumors with Horseradish Peroxidase-Functionalized Near-Infrared-II PbS Quantum Dots

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Intraoperative diagnosis of early lymphatic metastasis using neodymium-based rare-earth NIR-II fluorescence nanoprobe

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Ultrabright quantum dots assisted in vivo NIR-II fluorescence microscopic imaging for brain metastases in triple-negative breast cancer

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A Pervasive Approach for Determining the Optimal Tissue Windows for Near‐Infrared Fluorescence Imaging

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Conjugated Polymer for NIR-II Phototheranostics toward Tumor

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Synthesis and Preclinical Evaluation of Dual-Mode Fluorescent 18 F-PET Tracers Targeting PSMA

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A comprehensive review on recent developments in near-infrared organic fluorophores for breast cancer: from molecular design to diagnostic applications

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(INVITED)Adjustable near-infrared fluorescence lifetime emission of biocompatible rare-earth-doped nanoparticles for in vivo multiplexing

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Progress of near-infrared-II fluorescence in precision diagnosis and treatment of colorectal cancer

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Indocyanine Green-Loaded Mesoporous Silica Nanocomposite for Breast Cancer Imaging

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Simultaneously boosting visible and near-infrared luminescence of Ho in Cs2AgInCl6 double perovskites via Bi3+ sensitization

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A review of the application of machine learning in molecular imaging

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Deep learning: step forward to high‐resolution in vivo shortwave infrared imaging

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Rational design of a NIR-II fluorescent nanosystem with maximized fluorescence performance and applications

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Outcome of near-infrared fluorescence-navigated pulmonary metastasectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma

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Synthesis of novel halloysite@YF3:Ce3+,Tb3+ nanocomposite for enhanced luminescent properties

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Development of a fibroblast activation protein-targeted PET/NIR dual-modality probe and its application in head and neck cancer

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Comparison of perioperative outcomes of selective arterial clipping guided by near-infrared fluorescence imaging using indocyanine green versus undergoing standard robotic-assisted partial nephrectomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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The Down-Shifting Luminescence of Rare-Earth Nanoparticles for Multimodal Imaging and Photothermal Therapy of Breast Cancer

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NIR-activated water-soluble molecular probe based on Cu(ii) ion quenching mechanisms and substituted strategies: For in vitro/in vivo H2S detection

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Application of fluorescent tracing technology for investigating the effect of microplastics and nanoplastics on biological organisms

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VGLGAN: Enhancing NIR-IIb image generation with vision transformer empowered global and local feature generative adversarial network

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Recent Advances in NIR-II Molecular Aggregates and Applications in the Biomedical Field

Wu, K., Yang, R., Song, X., Ju, H., & Liu, Y. (2025) · Chemosensors · doi:10.3390/chemosensors13020067 · Cited by 9

Two-plex in vivo molecular imaging in the second near-infrared window for immunotherapeutic response

Sun, Y., Li, R., Cai, Y., Liu, Y., Wang, P., Wu, M., Zhang, X., Liao, N., Zhang, C., Zheng, A., et al. (2025) · Theranostics · doi:10.7150/thno.108880 · Cited by 9

Precision Visualization of Surgical Margins and Depth Imaging Performance in Orthotopic Hepatocellular Carcinoma Using Galactose-Targeted NIR-II Fluorescence Nanoprobe

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Framework Integration Engineered Asymmetric Cyanine Dyes for In Vivo High-Performance NIR-II Imaging and Multiplexed Labeling

Qin, Y., Guo, J., Qin, Y., Xu, Z., Fang, M., Fu, H., Cui, M., & Zhou, K. (2025) · Analytical Chemistry · doi:10.1021/acs.analchem.5c04745 · Cited by 10

Label-free tissue NIR-II autofluorescence imaging for visualization of human liver malignancy

He, H., Zhu, W., Miao, H., Wang, S., Du, Z., Zhang, H., Ming, J., Shi, B., Wang, H., Qi, J., et al. (2026) · Nature Biomedical Engineering · doi:10.1038/s41551-025-01593-4 · Cited by 10

Recent advances in HDAC-targeted imaging probes for cancer detection

Tang, C. C., Wang, X., Jin, Y., & Wang, F. (2022) · Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Reviews on Cancer · doi:10.1016/j.bbcan.2022.188788 · Cited by 9

Repair of the Urethral Mucosa Defect Model Using Adipose-Derived Stem Cell Sheets and Monitoring the Fate of Indocyanine Green-Labeled Sheets by Near Infrared-II

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Generalized conditional gradient method with adaptive regularization parameters for fluorescence molecular tomography

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In situ fluorescence-photoacoustic measurement of the changes of brown adipose tissue in mice under hindlimb unloading

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Evaluating the clinical efficacy and limitations of indocyanine green fluorescence-guided surgery in childhood hepatoblastoma: A retrospective study

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Self-confocal NIR-II fluorescence microscopy for multifunctional in vivo imaging

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Research progress of fluorescence imaging in intraoperative navigation based on VOSviewer bibliometric analysis

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Acidity-Triggered “Sticky Spotlight”: CCK2R-Targeted TME-Sensitive NIR Fluorescent Probes for Tumor Imaging In Vivo

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Preclinical evaluation of AGTR1-Targeting molecular probe for colorectal cancer imaging in orthotopic and liver metastasis mouse models

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Novel anilino quinazoline-based EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors for treatment of non-small cell lung cancer

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High‐Aspect‐Ratio Plasmonic Heterostructures for In Vivo Enhanced Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging in the Second Near‐Infrared Biological Window

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Revisiting molecularly conformation-planarized organic dyes for NIR-II fluorescence imaging

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From Ultraviolet to Near-Infrared: Label-Free Reflection-Mode Hyperspectral Photoacoustic Microscopy for Single-Cell Biochemical Mapping

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Systematic comparison of fluorescence imaging in the near-infrared and shortwave-infrared spectral range using clinical tumor samples containing cetuximab-IRDye800CW

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Strong Exciton Emission and Ultra‐Photostable Near Infrared‐II Fluorescent Protein for In Vivo Imaging

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Chromenylium Star Polymers: Merging Water Solubility and Stealth Properties with Shortwave Infrared Emissive Fluorophores

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Microspectrometer-Enabled Real-Time Concentration Monitoring in the Microfluidic Protein Enrichment Chip

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Deep Equilibrium Unfolding Learning for Noise Estimation and Removal in Optical Molecular Imaging

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Spatio‐Temporally Profiling Human Lung Cancer Surgery With a FRET‐Mediated AIEgen‐Active Nanoprobe

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Ratiometric Nanoprobes With Emission Beyond 1600 nm for In Vivo Inflammation Detection

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Near Infrared-Responsive Xanthene Probes for Dual-Mode Cancer Treatment and Bioimaging

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