A method of visualizing at least one of blood vessel, lymph vessel, brain, eye, stomach, breast, esophagus, skin, kidney, ureter, bladder, urethra, lung and heart, comprising:
- administering to a living body a solution comprising water and at least one of cyclodextrin-bonded indocyanine cations of formulas (15), (16), (19), (20), (21), (23), (24) and (25):
- applying excitation light to the at least one of cyclodextrin-bonded indocyanine cations in the living body;
- obtaining distribution state data of the at least one of cyclodextrin-bonded indocyanine cations in the living body by two-dimensionally acquiring intensity of a fluorescence emitted by the cyclodextrin-bonded indocyanine cation in the living body and two-dimensionally acquiring an intensity of light other than the fluorescence emitted by the cyclodextrin-bonded indocyanine cation excited by the excitation light;
- obtaining morphological data of a visualized part of the living body by two-dimensionally acquiring an intensity of light different from the fluorescence emitted by the cyclodextrin-bonded indocyanine cation, and
- displaying a distribution state of the cyclodextrin-bonded indocyanine cation in the part of the living body by overlapping the morphological data obtained by the morphological with the distribution state data obtained by the fluorescence imager.