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ArticleNPJ acoustics2025

Achieving single cell acoustic localisation with deactivation super resolution.

Cameron A B Smith, Mengtong Duan, Jipeng Yan, Laura Taylor, Mikhail Shapiro, Meng-Xing Tang

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Article in NPJ acoustics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Authors and funding

6 authors.

Cameron A B SmithDepartment of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, UK.
Mengtong DuanDivision of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA USA.
Jipeng YanDepartment of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, UK.
Laura TaylorDepartment of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, UK.
Mikhail ShapiroDivision of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA USA.
Meng-Xing TangDepartment of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, UK.

Funding

Ultrasonic Genetically Encoded Calcium Indicators for Whole-Brain NeuroimagingR01NS120828 · NINDS · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI SHAPIRO, MIKHAIL · 2021 to 2021
$2.1M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS120828Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Photo-activated localization microscopy (PALM) has been a game-changer, breaking the diffraction limit in spatial resolution. This study presents the Deactivation Super Resolution (DSR) method, which utilises the deactivation of genetically encodable contrast agents, enabling us to super-resolve and pinpoint individual cells with ultrasound as they navigate through structures which cannot be resolved by conventional B-Mode imaging. DSR takes advantage of Gas Vesicles (GVs), which are air-filled sub-micron particles that have been expressed in genetically engineered bacterial and mammalian cells to produce acoustic contrast. Our experimental results show that DSR can distinguish sub-wavelength microstructures that standard B-mode ultrasound images fail to resolve by super-localising individual mammalian cells. This study provides a proof of concept for the potential of DSR to serve as a super-resolution ultrasound technique for individual cell localisation, opening new horizons in the field.

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PMID40291471
PMCPMC12021647

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