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Super-resolution ultrasound

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By infusing blood vessels with gas-filled microbubbles and using rapid ultrasound imaging to detect the bubbles, super-resolution imaging of an entire vessel system has been achieved in a rat brain. See Letter p.499

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Figure 1: Vessels visualized.

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  1. Ben Cox and Paul Beard are in the Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.,

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Cox, B., Beard, P. Super-resolution ultrasound. Nature 527, 451–452 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/527451a

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