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The use of carbon nanotubes makes it possible to perform fluorescent imaging of cerebral vasculature of mice through their intact skulls. The high spatial and temporal resolution of the non-invasive technique may prove useful for studies of stroke and other brain disorders.

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Figure 1: Schematic of the single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) fluorescence approach for imaging mouse cerebral vasculature through intact skull and scalp.
Figure 2: Image of mouse cerebral vasculature generated by single-walled carbon nanotube fluorescence with high contrast and resolution.

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  1. Steen J. Madsen is in the Department of Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-3037, USA,

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Madsen, S. Through-skull brain imaging. Nature Photon 8, 677–678 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2014.205

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