... Program at Stanford (MIPS),Department of Radiology and Bio-X Program, StanfordUniversity School of Medicine, 1201 Welch Rd, P095,Stanford, CA 94305-5484, USAe-mail: shawchen@stanford.edu123Nanoscale ... Such information will alsobe critical for fluorescence-guided surgery by sensitive,Fig. 11 Schematic illustration of the formation of dendron-coatedQDs. From [195]Fig. 12 A QD-based probe for ... commonly used name of quantum dots [13, 14]. QDs have many desirable properties for biological imaging, such as high quantum yields, highmolar extinction coefficients ( 1–2 orders of magnitudehigher...