Facilitating NIR-II And SWIR Imaging For Drug Discovery And Research Applications

The extension of in vivo optical imaging for disease screening and image-guided surgical interventions requires brightly emitting, tissue-specific materials that optically transmit through living tissue and can be imaged with portable systems that display data in real-time.

Fluorescence imaging in the NIR-II / SWIR range can provide appreciably greater in vivo sensitivity compared to fluorescence imaging in the NIR-I region. This application note discusses newly developed, deeply cooled, scientific InGaAs cameras from Princeton Instruments that facilitate leading-edge methods for future in vivo optical imaging applications in the NIR-II / SWIR range.