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Nature Photonics 3, 378 - 379 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2009.109
Photoacoustic tomography: Sounding out fluorescent proteins
Peter Burgholzer1, Hubert Grün1 & Alois Sonnleitner2
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Peter Burgholzer and Hubert Grün are at the RECENDT GmbH (Research Center for Non-destructive Testing), Hafenstr. 47–51, 4020 Linz, Austria.
e-mail: peter.burgholzer@recendt.at - Alois Sonnleitner is at the Upper Austrian Research GmbH, Department for Biomedical-Nanotechnology, Scharitzerstr. 6–8, 4020 Linz, Austria.
Abstract
Researchers from Munich and Boston have shown that multispectral photoacoustic tomography can image fluorescent proteins buried deep in highly scattering living organisms.
