👉 To the original publication: t1p.de/rhx3k

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#LipidResearch #BiomedicalResearch #PrecisionMedicine #optoacoustic

#MunichImaging compared bulk #piezoelectric and opto-mechanical micromachined detectors (OMUS) for #optoacoustic and #ultrasound #sensing – with OMUS bearing potential as a low-cost alternative.
Read the article in @ieeesensorsalert.bsky.social
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#GLUMON #RSENSE

Our year-long joint efforts in the #ESOTRAC consortium come to a wonderful - almost - end with this publication on the #OCT #optoacoustic hybrid #endoscope for #esophagealcancer in #natureBME - but the story continues in #ESOHISTO! read more below

You discovered breakthroughs in #optoacoustic/ #photoacoustic #imaging & #spectroscopy?
Submit your manuscript to the collection “Advances in Optoacoustic Imaging” in @Nature_NPJ imaging!
Editors: Vasilis @Ntziachristos & Malini Olivo.

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@MunichImaging unraveled the unmixing performance and achievable depth with #photoswitchable #bacteriophytochromes in an #optoacoustic mesoscopy setup and give recommendation for future applications.
Read the article in #Optica Optics Express:
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#SWOPT

By using our Mid-infraRed #Optoacoustic #Microscopy (#MiROM) we could track treatment response in #myeloma cells of patients - paving the way for personalized medicine!

Read the paper:

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@MunichImaging PhD students Mario and Erik showcased our research on #optoacoustic #imaging and #sensing at the TUM Universitätsklinikum open day! Itwas a great pleasure to interact with the visitors!

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The #MOSAIC team informed the expert audience and interested visitors about our latest #laserdiode light sources and #optoacoustic sensors at the Laser World of Photonics Congress at the Messe München! Thanks to all visitors for dropping by at our booth and the insightful exchange!

Efficient staging & management of #melanoma requires non-invasive determination of tumor depth. @munichimaging.bsky.social demonstrates #optoacoustic #mesoscopy #RSOM imaging of melanoma at single melanocyte resolution, >3 mm within skin.
Read in #JEADV
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Our skin – a window on health, if we can just see through it! Novel approaches to an important medical tool which uses light for visualisation or measurements, have been developed, making other...

This results-in-brief article published by the @EU_Commission summarizes very nicely our achievements in #HorizonEU project #winther: how we improved #optoacoustic #mesoscopy #RSOM and applied it to systemic diseases such as #diabetes
Read:
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Play and learn! #Munichimaging took part in the Summerfest of theTUM School of Medicine and Health. Students could learn about #optoacoustic #imaging and #fluorescence molecular endoscopy – either in discussions or by playing imaging twister! We had great fun. See you next year!

MunichImaging together with iThera Medical developed a scale-equivariant model-based #reconstruction operator that automatically adjusts regularization strength & facilitates supervised #deeplearning using input #singorams #optoacoustic

Read in Photoacoustics

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OPTOMICS – Combining optoacoustic imaging phenotypes and multi-omics to advance diabetes healthcare

Finally, #OPTOMICS - a @horizoneu.bsky.social project is on Bsky!
We will inform you on latest advancements on #diabetes, #optoacoustic #imaging, #omics and how they all merge into a #digitaltwin to promote diabetes healthcare.

Take a look at our website!

optomics.munichimaging.eu

New publication by MunichImaging on #Nonlinearity of #optoacoustic signals and a new contrast mechanism for #imaging!!

Read the article here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🥳 Congratulations to our phd candidate Myeongseop Kim for winning the poster prize at #EMIM2025 on "Evolution of label-free analytical #histology: label-free metabolic #imaging of fat tissue remodelling based on mid-infrared #optoacoustic #microscopy and digital staining"

Home | Center for Advanced Metabolic Imaging in Precision Medicine | Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Welcome to the Center For Advanced Metabolic Imaging in Precision Medicine (CAMIPM), a National Center for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NCBIB) in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

The Center For Advanced Metabolic Imaging in Precision Medicine (#CAMIPM) at #UPenn is hosting #munichimaging director @ntziachristos in the seminar, talking about
"Advances with #optical and #optoacoustic #imaging"
Feb 27th, 2025, 3 PM
Register for Zoom: www.med.upenn.edu/CAMIPM/

We had our brand-new @horizoneu.bsky.social EIC pathfinder project @mosaiceu.bsky.social kicked off at Helmholtz Munich. We are excited to coordinate this grant, thankful to the EIC for funding and so much looking forward to collaborate with our partners! #MOSAIC #optoacoustic #sensors #diabetes

With great pleasure we welcomed the consortium at @www.helmholtz-munich.de to kick-start our @horizoneu.bsky.social #EIC pathfinder project #MOSAIC. In the next four years we will develop & validate our „Multivariate #optoacoustic #sensor for longitudinal #diabetes monitoring“.
Stay tuned!

#Optoacoustic #photoacoustic #imaging is increasingly applied to study medical conditions. The review by V. Ntziachristos #munichimaging & F. Knieling at Uni Hospital Erlangen is diving into current #clinical applications & discusses future opportunities.
NPJ imaging
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

And here goes Max on deciphering spectra of #breastcancer with #optoacoustic tomography. More interesting presentations from @munichimaging.bsky.social coming up soon at @spie.org #PhotonicsWest

#MunichImaging is at #SPIE #PhotonicsWest
topics: #fluorescence #imaging #standards, mid-IR & #Bayesian raster-computed #optoacoustic #microscopy, #myeloma therapy, model-based #reconstruction for real-time clinical imaging & spectra of #breastcancer using #MSOT
spie.org/conferences-...

#Stanford 2025 Symposium on Optical Surgical Navigation:
#munichimaging director Vasilis Ntziachristos will present "Early detection of #esophageal #cancer with #fluorescence and #optoacoustic #endoscopy"
Jan 24, 11:10 PST
Virtual registration: www.onlineregistrationcenter.com/register/222...

Join the 2025 LAMP seminar at UCI Beckman Laser Institute & Medical Clinic with #munichimaging director Vasilis Ntziachristos speaking about "From #optical to #optoacoustic #imaging: technology advances and clinical #translation"
Jan 21st, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm PT
Zoom: uci.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We are @munichimaging.bsky.social – the channel of the Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging at Helmholtz Munich and the Chair of Biological Imaging at the Technical University of Munich (TUM)!
Stay tuned for #optoacoustic #imaging & #fluorescence molecular imaging & clincial translation.

<div class="post-content"> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The quantum entanglement of particles is now an established art. </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.025em;">You take two or more unmeasured particles and correlate them in such a way that their properties blur and mirror each other. Measure one and the other's corresponding properties lock into place, instantaneously, even when separated by a wide distance.</span></p><!-- START single/mrec --><div class="ad-slot--container ad-slot--container-content ad-slot--container-content-1 Purch_Y_C_0_1-container"> <div class="ad-slot priad-1 ad-slot--content-1 Purch_Y_C_0_1" id="Purch_Y_C_0_1"></div> <script type="9c6a7f24ac3581ab2800bcf6-text/javascript"> if ('undefined' !== typeof window.tmntag && 'undefined' !== typeof window.tmntag.cmd) { tmntag.cmd.push(function () { tmntag.adTag('Purch_Y_C_0_1', false); }); } </script> </div> <!-- END single/mrec --><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In new research, physicists have theorized a bold way to change it up by entangling two particles of very different kinds – a unit of light, or a photon, with a phonon, the quantum equivalent of a wave of sound.</span></p><!-- START single/mrec --><div class="ad-slot--container ad-slot--container-content ad-slot--container-content-2 Purch_Y_C_0_2-container"> <div class="ad-slot ad-slot--content ad-slot--content-2 Purch_Y_C_0_2" id="Purch_Y_C_0_2"></div> <script type="9c6a7f24ac3581ab2800bcf6-text/javascript"> if ('undefined' !== typeof window.tmntag && 'undefined' !== typeof window.tmntag.cmd) { tmntag.cmd.push(function () { tmntag.adTag('Purch_Y_C_0_2', false); }); } </script> </div> <!-- END single/mrec --><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Physicists Changlong Zhu, Claudiu Genes, and Birgit Stiller of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Germany have called their proposed new system optoacoustic entanglement.</span></p><!-- START single/mrec --><div class="ad-slot--container ad-slot--container-content ad-slot--container-content-3 Purch_Y_C_0_3-container"> <div class="ad-slot ad-slot--content ad-slot--content-3 Purch_Y_C_0_3" id="Purch_Y_C_0_3"></div> <script type="9c6a7f24ac3581ab2800bcf6-text/javascript"> if ('undefined' !== typeof window.tmntag && 'undefined' !== typeof window.tmntag.cmd) { tmntag.cmd.push(function () { tmntag.adTag('Purch_Y_C_0_3', false); }); } </script> </div> <!-- END single/mrec --><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This represents a hybrid system using two very different fundamental particles, establishing a form of entanglement that is uniquely resistant to external noise, one of the biggest problems facing quantum technology, making it a significant step towards more robust quantum devices.</span></p><figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-143863" class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_143863" style="width: 642px"><img alt="Physicists Have Found a New Method For The Quantum Entanglement of Light And Sound" class="size-full wp-image-143863" decoding="async" height="514" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2024/11/photon-phonon.jpg" srcset="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2024/11/photon-phonon.jpg 642w, https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2024/11/photon-phonon-518x415.jpg 518w, https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2024/11/photon-phonon-600x480.jpg 600w" width="642"/><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-143863">An artist's impression of laser light entangled with an acoustic wave. (<a href="https://mpl.mpg.de/news-events/news-from-the-institute/news-detail/news-detail/news-detail?tx_news_pi1%5Baction%5D=detail&amp;tx_news_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=News&amp;tx_news_pi1%5Bnews%5D=1463&amp;cHash=229dbf33867ea1c42b8ac08432c3268e">Alexandra Genes/MPL</a>)</figcaption></figure><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Quantum entanglement has promising applications for high-speed quantum communication and quantum computing. The unique physics that define isolated and entangled particles before and after they are measured makes them ideal for a range of uses, from encryption to high-speed algorithms. </span></p><!-- START single/mrec --><div class="ad-slot--container ad-slot--container-content ad-slot--container-content-4 Purch_Y_C_0_4-container"> <div class="ad-slot ad-slot--content ad-slot--content-4 Purch_Y_C_0_4" id="Purch_Y_C_0_4"></div> <script type="9c6a7f24ac3581ab2800bcf6-text/javascript"> if ('undefined' !== typeof window.tmntag && 'undefined' !== typeof window.tmntag.cmd) { tmntag.cmd.push(function () { tmntag.adTag('Purch_Y_C_0_4', false); }); } </script> </div> <!-- END single/mrec --><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But the delicate quantum state required for these processes can be easily broken, a problem that has curtailed its realization in practical applications.</span></p><!-- START single/mrec --><div class="ad-slot--container ad-slot--container-content ad-slot--container-content-5 Purch_Y_C_0_5-container"> <div class="ad-slot ad-slot--content ad-slot--content-5 Purch_Y_C_0_5" id="Purch_Y_C_0_5"></div> <script type="9c6a7f24ac3581ab2800bcf6-text/javascript"> if ('undefined' !== typeof window.tmntag && 'undefined' !== typeof window.tmntag.cmd) { tmntag.cmd.push(function () { tmntag.adTag('Purch_Y_C_0_5', false); }); } </script> </div> <!-- END single/mrec --><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Scientists are working to solve this problem, with some promising pathways. </span><a href="https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.9.041042"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Higher dimensionality</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> reduces the impact of degrading noise, as does </span><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47354-w"><span style="font-weight: 400;">adding more particles</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to the entangled system. It's very likely that a workable solution will involve more than one pathway, though, so the more options we have, the more likely that the correct combination will be found.</span></p><!-- START single/mrec --><div class="ad-slot--container ad-slot--container-content ad-slot--container-content-6 Purch_Y_C_0_6-container"> <div class="ad-slot ad-slot--content ad-slot--content-6 Purch_Y_C_0_6" id="Purch_Y_C_0_6"></div> <script type="9c6a7f24ac3581ab2800bcf6-text/javascript"> if ('undefined' !== typeof window.tmntag && 'undefined' !== typeof window.tmntag.cmd) { tmntag.cmd.push(function () { tmntag.adTag('Purch_Y_C_0_6', false); }); } </script> </div> <!-- END single/mrec --><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The pathway Zhu and his colleagues investigated involved pairing photons not with other photons, but a 'particle' of a different propagation entirely: sound. This is quite tricky to achieve, because photons and phonons travel at different speeds and have different energy levels.</span></p><figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-143862" class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_143862" style="width: 642px"><img alt="Physicists Have Found a New Method For The Quantum Entanglement of Light And Sound" class="size-full wp-image-143862" decoding="async" height="488" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2024/11/entang-experiment.jpg" srcset="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2024/11/entang-experiment.jpg 642w, https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2024/11/entang-experiment-546x415.jpg 546w, https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2024/11/entang-experiment-600x456.jpg 600w" width="642"/><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-143862">A schematic describing the proposed experiment. (Zhu et al., <a href="https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.203602"><em>Phys. Rev. Lett</em></a>., 2024)</figcaption></figure><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The researchers showed how particles could be entangled by leveraging a process called Brillouin scattering, whereby light is scattered by waves of heat-generated sound vibrations among atoms in a material.</span></p><!-- START single/mrec --><div class="ad-slot--container ad-slot--container-content ad-slot--container-content-7 Purch_Y_C_0_7-container"> <div class="ad-slot ad-slot--content ad-slot--content-7 Purch_Y_C_0_7" id="Purch_Y_C_0_7"></div> <script type="9c6a7f24ac3581ab2800bcf6-text/javascript"> if ('undefined' !== typeof window.tmntag && 'undefined' !== typeof window.tmntag.cmd) { tmntag.cmd.push(function () { tmntag.adTag('Purch_Y_C_0_7', false); }); } </script> </div> <!-- END single/mrec --><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In their proposed solid-state system, the researchers would pulse laser light and acoustic waves into an on-chip, solid-state Brillouin-active waveguide, designed to induce Brillouin scattering. When the two quanta travel along the same photonic structure, the phonon travels at a much slower speed, resulting in the scattering that can entangle particles that carry dramatically different energy levels.</span></p><!-- START single/mrec --><div class="ad-slot--container ad-slot--container-content ad-slot--container-content-8 Purch_Y_C_0_8-container"> <div class="ad-slot ad-slot--content ad-slot--content-8 Purch_Y_C_0_8" id="Purch_Y_C_0_8"></div> <script type="9c6a7f24ac3581ab2800bcf6-text/javascript"> if ('undefined' !== typeof window.tmntag && 'undefined' !== typeof window.tmntag.cmd) { tmntag.cmd.push(function () { tmntag.adTag('Purch_Y_C_0_8', false); }); } </script> </div> <!-- END single/mrec --><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What makes this even more interesting is that it can be achieved at higher temperatures than standard entanglement approaches, bringing entanglement out of the cryogenic zone and potentially reducing the need for expensive, specialized equipment.</span></p><!-- START single/mrec --><div class="ad-slot--container ad-slot--container-content ad-slot--container-content-9 Purch_Y_C_0_9-container"> <div class="ad-slot ad-slot--content ad-slot--content-9 Purch_Y_C_0_9" id="Purch_Y_C_0_9"></div> <script type="9c6a7f24ac3581ab2800bcf6-text/javascript"> if ('undefined' !== typeof window.tmntag && 'undefined' !== typeof window.tmntag.cmd) { tmntag.cmd.push(function () { tmntag.adTag('Purch_Y_C_0_9', false); }); } </script> </div> <!-- END single/mrec --><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It requires further investigation and experimentation, but it's a promising result, the researchers say.</span></p><!-- START single/mrec --><div class="ad-slot--container ad-slot--container-content ad-slot--container-content-10 Purch_Y_C_0_10-container"> <div class="ad-slot ad-slot--content ad-slot--content-10 Purch_Y_C_0_10" id="Purch_Y_C_0_10"></div> <script type="9c6a7f24ac3581ab2800bcf6-text/javascript"> if ('undefined' !== typeof window.tmntag && 'undefined' !== typeof window.tmntag.cmd) { tmntag.cmd.push(function () { tmntag.adTag('Purch_Y_C_0_10', false); }); } </script> </div> <!-- END single/mrec --><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"The fact that the system operates over a large bandwidth of both optical and acoustic modes," <a href="https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.203602">they write</a>, "brings a new prospect of entanglement with continuum modes with great potential for applications in quantum computation, quantum storage, quantum metrology, quantum teleportation, entanglement-assisted quantum communication, and the exploration of the boundary </span><a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/study-experiments-that-could-show-gravitys-quantumness-are-achievable"><span style="font-weight: 400;">between classical and quantum worlds</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">."</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The research has been published in </span><a href="https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.203602"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Physical Review Letters</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> </div>

Physicists Have Found a Radical New Way to Entangle Light And Sound
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Physicists Have Found a Radical New Way to Entangle Light And Sound The quantum entanglement of particles is now an established art.

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