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Photoacoustic tomography

Sounding out fluorescent proteins

Nature Photonics volume 3, pages 378–379 (2009)Cite this article

Researchers from Munich and Boston have shown that multispectral photoacoustic tomography can image fluorescent proteins buried deep in highly scattering living organisms.

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Figure 1: Photoacoustic imaging.

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  1. Peter Burgholzer and Hubert Grün are at the RECENDT GmbH (Research Center for Non-destructive Testing), Hafenstr. 47–51, 4020 Linz, Austria. peter.burgholzer@recendt.at,

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  2. Department for Biomedical-Nanotechnology, Alois Sonnleitner is at the Upper Austrian Research GmbH, Scharitzerstr. 6–8, 4020 Linz, Austria.,

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Burgholzer, P., Grün, H. & Sonnleitner, A. Sounding out fluorescent proteins. Nature Photon 3, 378–379 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2009.109

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