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Revealing capillaries and cells in living organs with ultrasound

NIBIB in the News
April 4, 2025

While medical centers use ultrasound daily, so far this technology has not been capable of observing body tissues at the scale of cells. Physicists at several universities including CalTech have now developed a microscopy technique based on ultrasound to reveal capillaries and cells across living organs -- something that wasn't possible before. Source: Delft University of Technology