Visualizing cortical blood perfusion after photothrombotic stroke in vivo by needle-shaped beam optical coherence tomography angiography

Xiangyu Guo; Jingjing Zhao; Liqun Sun; Varun Gupta; Lin Du; Komal Sharma; Aidan Vleck; Kaitlyn Liang; Liangcai Cao; Lingjie Kong; Yuanmu Yang; Yong Huang; Adam Zerda; Guofan Jin

doi:10.1186/s43074-024-00124-9

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