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A new set of imaging techniques that take advantage of scattered light may soon lead to key advances in biomedical optics, providing access to depths well beyond what is currently possible with ballistic light.

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Figure 1: Depth penetration versus spatial resolution for some of the most widespread biomedical imaging techniques.
Figure 2: Principle of wavefront shaping in disordered media.

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  1. Sylvain Gigan is at Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel, Ecole Normale Supérieure, CNRS, 75005 Paris, France,

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Gigan, S. Optical microscopy aims deep. Nature Photon 11, 14–16 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2016.257

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