Stem cell homing, tracking and therapeutic efficiency evaluation for stroke treatment using nanoparticles: A systematic review

Table 8 Near-infrared fluorescence imaging features for stem cell homing evaluation

Ref.	Agent	Equipment	Software	Excitation / Emission wavelength (nm)	Time of exposition	Follow-up
Lim et al[33]	DBCO-Cy5.5	IVIS Lumina Series III (PerkinElmer)	Living Image (PerkinElmer)	670/NA	1 min	In vivo at 1, 3, 7, 10, 14 d; ex vivo at 2, 27, 30, 33, 36 h
Zhang et al[34]	LV-FTH-EGFP	small animal in vivo FLI system (in vivo FxPro; Carestream)	MI (Carestream)	487/509	NA	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 wk
Bai et al[42]	Cy5-5	Maestro in vivo imaging system (CRi, Woburn)	Maestro v. 2.10.0	675/695	NA	1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 14 d

DBCO: Dibenzylcyclooctyne; Cy5.5: Cyanine 5.5; LV-FTH-EGFP: Lentiviral vector-encoding ferritin heavy chain and enhanced green fluorescent protein; NA: Not applicable; MI: Molecular imaging software; Cri: Cambridge research and instrumentation.