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Vol. 13, Issue 4, 941 (2025)

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Xuanhao Wang^1,6,†,*, Yan Luo^2,†, Fudong Xue^3,†..., Lijuan Ma³, Yang Xiao¹, Dikui Zhou¹, Junhui Shi¹, Mingshu Zhang^4,5,7,*, Pingyong Xu^3,8,* and Cheng Ma^2,9,*|Show fewer author(s)

Author Affiliations

¹Research Center for Novel Computational Sensing and Intelligent Processing, Zhejiang Lab, Hangzhou 311100, China

²Department of Electronic Engineering, Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

³Key Laboratory of Biomacromolecules (CAS), CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China

⁴Institute of Advanced Clinical Medicine, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China

⁵Neuroscience Research Institute, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China

⁶e-mail: xh-wang@zhejianglab.org

⁷e-mail: mszhang@hsc.pku.edu.cn

⁸e-mail: pyxu@ibp.ac.cn

⁹e-mail: cheng_ma@tsinghua.edu.cn

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Xuanhao Wang, Yan Luo, Fudong Xue, Lijuan Ma, Yang Xiao, Dikui Zhou, Junhui Shi, Mingshu Zhang, Pingyong Xu, Cheng Ma, "Fast parallel quantification for near-infrared genetically encoded reporters with self-calibrated photoacoustic screening," Photonics Res. 13, 941 (2025) Copy Citation Text

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