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Scientists image organs at microscopic scales

In a new study published in Nature, researchers have demonstrated a technique that allows the mapping of organs at microscopic scales.

Mihai Andrei by Mihai Andrei
November 26, 2015
in Anatomy, News, Physics
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In a new study published in Nature, researchers have demonstrated a technique that allows the mapping of organs at microscopic scales; they detail its use and produced images of the microvessels in the brain of a live rat.

Image of the whole brain vasculature at microscopic resolution in the live rat using ultrafast Ultrasound Localization Microscopy: Local density of intravascular microbubbles in the right hemisphere, quantitative estimation of blood flow speed in the left hemisphere. Credit: ESPCI/INSERM/CNRS
Image of the whole brain vasculature at microscopic resolution in the live rat using ultrafast Ultrasound Localization Microscopy: Local density of intravascular microbubbles in the right hemisphere, quantitative estimation of blood flow speed in the left hemisphere.
Credit: ESPCI/INSERM/CNRS

Current techniques of microscopic imaging are not ideal. Just like in geological imaging techniques, there’s a tradeoff between penetration depth, resolution, and time of acquisition. In other words, if you want to see all the way through the human body, you won’t have good enough resolution – or you will but it will take a very long time. Until now, conventional imaging techniques have worked at milimetre and sub-milimetre scale at best, being limited by one of the fundamental laws of physics: features smaller than the wavelength of the radiation used for imaging cannot be resolved. But Mickael Tanter, a professor at the Langevin Institute and his colleagues have come up with a new approach, and report a new super-resolution.

Like a few other recent studies, they used microbubbles, with diameters of 1–3 micrometres, which were injected into the bloodstream of live rats. They then combined deep penetration and super-resolution imaging in a technique they call ‘ultrafast ultrasound localization microscopy’. With this, they obtained ultra fast frame rates (500 / second), and achieved a resolution equal to the rat brain microvasculature – less than 10 micrometers in diameter (0.01 milimetres).

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While this is still a work in progress, authors believe it can help doctors make better diagnostics and better understand how some diseases affect the body.

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