Sharp laser beam reveals internal organs in stunning 3D

A laser-based imaging system reveals blood vessels in a mouse's brain (top images without skull, bottom images with intact skull). Credit: R. Cao et al./Nat. Photon.

A needle-shaped laser beam boosts the performance of a biomedical imaging method called photoacoustic microscopy1.

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Nature 612, 378 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-04250-x

Cao, R. et al. Nature Photon. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-022-01112-w (2022).

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