Liposomal nanoparticles incorporating photosensitive lipids and enclosing paramagnetic molecules enable the mapping, via magnetic resonance imaging, of spatial variations of light intensity in illuminated brain tissue in living animals.
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Singh, A., McMahon, M.T. Mapping light distribution in the brain via MRI. Nat. Biomed. Eng 7, 199–201 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-022-00995-y
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