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Super-resolution ultrasound

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By infusing blood vessels with gas-filled microbubbles and using rapid ultrasound imaging to detect the bubbles, super-resolution imaging of an entire vessel system has been achieved in a rat brain. See Letter p.499

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  1. Ben Cox and Paul Beard are in the Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.,

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