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Fast capturing of deep blood flow

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Photoacoustic tomography can image fast haemodynamics by either exploiting the spatial heterogeneity of blood or by leveraging a single laser pulse and a single element functioning as thousands of virtual detectors.

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Gao, R., Xu, Z. & Liu, C. Fast capturing of deep blood flow. Nat. Biomed. Eng (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-023-01162-7

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