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Contrast Media & Molecular Imaging
Volume 2018 (2018), Article ID 7929617, 11 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/7929617
Research Article

Construction and Evaluation of the Tumor-Targeting, Cell-Penetrating Multifunctional Molecular Probe iCREKA

Li-juan Wang, Hong-sheng Li, Quan-shi Wang, Hu-bing Wu, Yan-jiang Han, Wen-lan Zhou, Meng Wang, and Shun Huang

PET Center, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510515, China

Correspondence should be addressed to Quan-shi Wang; ten.361@hplsqw

Received 11 August 2017; Revised 24 December 2017; Accepted 5 February 2018; Published 4 March 2018

Academic Editor: James Frost

Copyright © 2018 Li-juan Wang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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