A ultrasound technique from the University of Nottingham will allow the production of sharper images inside live cells without causing damage at resolutions that were previously unattainable.
The project, from the Faculty of Engineering’s Optics and Photonics research group, explores a way to look deep inside tiny structures, such as single cells, that regular light-based microscopes cannot, and without harming them. The work is published in the journal Photoacoustics.
This technique has been used to measure the stiffness of cancer cells at a single-cell level, which could allow for new methods of early cancer diagnosis to be developed.
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