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IT has long been the desire of physicians, physiologists, and biophysicists alike to be able to observe, microscopically, living human tissue in its original environment. Numerous ingenious approaches to the problem have been made, and there are few organs of the experimental animal that have not been subjected to transillumination and microscopic examination in the living state, either in situ or externally. However, in spite of marked advances in these various techniques, none has proved suitable for the microscopic examination of human tissue in vivo at any depth.
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CAPELLARO, D., KAPANY, N. & LONG, C. A Hypodermic Probe using Fibre Optics. Nature 191, 927–928 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/191927a0
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