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Hot spot MRI emerges from the background

Magnetic resonance imaging of fluorine-labeled cells allows specific detection of cells in vivo without endogenous background signal.

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Bulte, J. Hot spot MRI emerges from the background. Nat Biotechnol 23, 945–946 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0805-945

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