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Better contrast with vesicles

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Biologically derived, nanoscale gas vesicles can be used as ultrasound contrast agents.

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Figure 1: Potential molecular-imaging applications for nanoscale gas vesicles.

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  1. Mark Borden and Shashank Sirsi are at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA,

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Borden, M., Sirsi, S. Better contrast with vesicles. Nature Nanotech 9, 248–249 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2014.68

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