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Imaging pathology goes nanoscale with a low-cost strategy

Nature Nanotechnology volume 18, pages 324–325 (2023)Cite this article

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Combination of physical tissue expansion and super-resolution radial fluctuations achieves nanoscale resolution in pathology specimens with LED-based widefield microscopy.

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Fig. 1: ExSRRF allows super-resolution imaging of clinical tissue samples with conventional hardware.

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Y.Z. and B.R.G. are inventors of several inventions related to ExM.

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Gallagher, B.R., Zhao, Y. Imaging pathology goes nanoscale with a low-cost strategy. Nat. Nanotechnol. 18, 324–325 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-023-01318-1

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