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Sounding out fluorescent proteins

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Researchers from Munich and Boston have shown that multispectral photoacoustic tomography can image fluorescent proteins buried deep in highly scattering living organisms.

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Figure 1: Photoacoustic imaging.

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  1. Peter Burgholzer and Hubert Grün are at the RECENDT GmbH (Research Center for Non-destructive Testing), Hafenstr. 47–51, 4020 Linz, Austria. peter.burgholzer@recendt.at,

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  2. Department for Biomedical-Nanotechnology, Alois Sonnleitner is at the Upper Austrian Research GmbH, Scharitzerstr. 6–8, 4020 Linz, Austria.,

    Alois Sonnleitner

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Burgholzer, P., Grün, H. & Sonnleitner, A. Sounding out fluorescent proteins. Nature Photon 3, 378–379 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2009.109

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