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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Wiley Interdiscip Rev Nanomed Nanobiotechnol. 2015 Jan 30;7(6):828–838. doi: 10.1002/wnan.1337

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Chemical structures of various classes of small molecule fluorophores that have been explored for biophotonic imaging, their general hydrophobicity maps, highlighted characteristics concerning their potential for in vivo performance and the overall optical properties concerning the general core structure.