Sound and Vision

Ways to see inside the body non-invasively are vital for painless, fast and convenient early disease diagnosis – as well as to help further our understanding of biology. Here a new technique called 3D panoramic photoacoustic computed tomography (3DPanoPact) relies on light with ultrasound rather than light alone to visualise deep into living tissues in whole bodies, overcoming the potentially obfuscating effects of unwanted light scattering and more limited field of view. The action of breathing squeezing the viscera is seen in this video of a live mouse imaged by 3DPanoPact

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Written by Lindsey Goff

Lindsey Goff

Editor-in-Chief

Formerly immunologist for Cancer Research UK, Lindsey has since moved into the field of scientific publishing. She looks after all BPoD editorial matters.

• Video from work by Xuanhao Wang and colleagues
• Research Center for Computing Sensing, Zhejiang Lab, Hangzhou, China
• Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
• Published in Nature Communications, November 2025