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Fast volumetric scanning of living tissue

Volumetric histological imaging of mouse and human tissues without the need for tissue staining or excision can be performed in real time via microscopes leveraging confocally aligned light-sheet illumination.

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Fig. 1: Fast volumetric imaging of living tissue via SCAPE optimized for biomedical and clinical applications (MediSCAPE).

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Gunzer, M. Fast volumetric scanning of living tissue. Nat. Biomed. Eng 6, 497–498 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-022-00894-2

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