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Techniques such as Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry provide valuable chemical information but face limitations in nanoscale detection, sensitivity, tissue penetration, and spatial localization within biological matrices. Fluorescent labeling techniques have emerged as a powerful complementary approach, offering high sensitivity, real-time imaging capability, and broad compatibility with in vitro and in vivo platforms. This review summarizes the principal fluorescent labeling strategies used for MNPs, including adsorption-based staining, swelling-diffusion methods, covalent conjugation, and polymerization-based incorporation of fluorescent probes. We also examine the imaging modalities used to visualize and quantify fluorescent MNPs in biological contexts, including fluorescence microscopy, confocal microscopy, flow cytometry, and whole-body optical imaging. Applications in cellular uptake studies, biodistribution in animal models, transport across biological barriers, and cumulative accumulation measurements are highlighted. Persistent challenges such as dye leaching, biological autofluorescence, photobleaching, and polymer-dependent labeling efficiency are addressed, alongside emerging opportunities in near-infrared fluorescence imaging and multimodal detection strategies. 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