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The fog clears

A technique has been developed to image a fluorescent object hiding behind a light-scattering screen without the need for a detector behind the screen. The approach could find applications in imaging biological tissue. See Letter p.232

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Psaltis, D., Papadopoulos, I. The fog clears. Nature 491, 197–198 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/491197a

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