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Photoacoustic tomography: Breathtaking whole-body imaging

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High-frame-rate, high-resolution photoacoustic computed tomography reveals, for small live animals, the brain's functional connectivity and the dynamics of breathing, blood oxygenation and circulating melanoma cells.

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Figure 1: Whole-body photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT).
Figure 2: Applications of SIP-PACT.

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