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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 4.

Figure 4

Current state-of-the-art NIR fluorophores used in image-guided surgery. The chemical structures of three NIR fluorescent contrast agents and the corresponding optical properties. The negatively charged moieties are highlighted in red and the positively charged regions are designated in blue.