• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 19, Issue 11, 111701 (2021)
Dengfeng Li, Yachao Zhang, Chao Liu, Jiangbo Chen, Dong Sun*, and Lidai Wang**
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  • Department of Biomedical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China
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    Dengfeng Li, Yachao Zhang, Chao Liu, Jiangbo Chen, Dong Sun, Lidai Wang. Review of photoacoustic imaging for microrobots tracking in vivo [Invited][J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2021, 19(11): 111701 Copy Citation Text show less
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