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Gas vesicles as collapsible MRI contrast agents

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Microbial gas vesicles have been developed for use as MRI contrast agents whose contrast can be inactivated by applying ultrasound waves to collapse the vesicles.

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Fig. 1: Microbial-derived gas vesicles as contrast agents for MRI.

Courtesy of Mikhail Shapiro (a) and adapted from ref. 2, Macmillan Publishers Ltd (b).

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