Strongly absorbing molecules make tissue transparent: a new insight for understanding tissue optical clearing

Tingting Yu; Dan Zhu

doi:10.1038/s41377-024-01675-z

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- Strongly absorbing molecules make tissue transparent: a new insight for understanding tissue optical clearing
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 14, Issue 1, Pages: 10-12(2025)
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  Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics-MoE Key Laboratory for Biomedical Photonics, Advanced Biomedical Imaging Facility-Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074 Hubei, China
- Author bio：
  
  Dan Zhu (dawnzh@mail.hust.edu.cn)
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- DOI：10.1038/s41377-024-01675-z
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- Published：31 January 2025，
  
  Published Online：01 January 2025，
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Yu, T. T. & Zhu, D. Strongly absorbing molecules make tissue transparent: a new insight for understanding tissue optical clearing. Light: Science & Applications, 14, 10-12 (2025).
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Yu, T. T. & Zhu, D. Strongly absorbing molecules make tissue transparent: a new insight for understanding tissue optical clearing. Light: Science & Applications, 14, 10-12 (2025). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-024-01675-z.

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Optical imaging plays a central role in the field of biomedicine

but it suffers from the light scattering of tissues. The research group from Stanford University has reported a counterintuitive observation that strongly absorbing molecules could achieve optical transparency in live animals

providing a new insight for understanding tissue optical clearing. It empowers scientists to leverage optical imaging techniques for in vivo observation of a wide range of deep-seated structures and activities.

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