Luminescence Bioimaging with Lanthanide Complexes

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland and Korea University, Republic of Korea 

This chapter is dedicated to Prof. Huang Chunhui for her seminal contribution to the field 

Luminescence of Lanthanide Ions in Coordination Compounds and Nanomaterials, First Edition. Edited by Ana de Bettencouit-Dias. 

In this chapter, we review bioimaging experiments based on lanthanide luminescence, essentially restricting ourselves to the cases dealing with lanthanide complexes and singlephoton excitation since multiphoton imaging is dealt with more completely in Chapter 5 while bioimaging with UCNPs is reviewed in Chapter 7. Literature is systematically covered up to the end of 2011 while selected newer entries are introduced in Section 4.3. 

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