title: Emerging applications of conjugated polymers in molecular imaging.
abstract: In recent years, conjugated polymers have attracted considerable attention from the imaging community as a new class of contrast agent due to their intriguing structural, chemical, and optical properties. Their size and emission wavelength tunability, brightness, photostability, and low toxicity have been demonstrated in a wide range of in vitro sensing and cellular imaging applications, and have just begun to show impact in in vivo settings. In this Perspective, we summarize recent advances in engineering conjugated polymers as imaging contrast agents, their emerging applications in molecular imaging (referred to as in vivo uses in this paper), as well as our perspectives on future research.
authors.affiliation: Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. odonnel@u.washington.edu xgao@u.washington.edu.
authors.forename: Junwei
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Chen-Wei
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: O'Donnell
authors.forename: Xiaohu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Gao
mesh_terms: D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D003287:Contrast Media / Q000737:chemistry; D006801:Humans; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000473:pathology; D057054:Molecular Imaging / Q000639:trends; D015394:Molecular Structure; D053758:Nanoparticles / Q000737:chemistry; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry*; D011859:Radiography
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media; D011108:Polymers