Self-organizing laser beam enables ultrafast, high-res brain imaging
TL;DR
MIT researchers reveal a laser that self-organizes into a stable pencil beam inside a multimode fiber under precise on-axis high-power conditions, enabling ultrafast, high-resolution 3D imaging of the blood–brain barrier and real-time tracking of drug uptake without fluorescent tags—potentially speeding brain-targeted therapy research by about 25x and opening paths to imaging neurons and other tissues.
Topics:sciencetechnology#bioimaging#blood-brain-barrier#nonlinear-optics#pencil-beam#technology#ultrafast-imaging
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