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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 25.
Published in final edited form as: ACS Nano. 2012 Sep 4;6(9):8280–8287. doi: 10.1021/nn302972r

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Whole animal imaging of a BALB/c mouse injected via tail vein with the HA-coated α-(NaYbF4: 0.5% Tm3+)/CaF2 core/shell nanoparticles. a, d) UC PL images; b, e) bright-field images; and c, d) merged bright-field and UC PL images. Mouse was imaged in the belly (a, b, c) and the back positions. Inset in Figure 4f shows the spectra of the NIR UC PL and background taken from the circled area.