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Shining a new light into molecular workings

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A technique to substantially increase the resolution and imaging area of Fourier-transform infrared microspectroscopy, while decreasing the amount of time required for image acquisition, may augment the use of this technology in biomedical and environmental research.

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Figure 1: Chemical imaging of different tissue components in a pixel-by-pixel fashion.

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