These days blood clots are often successfully removed from the body using minimally invasive catheter-based tools. They are then summarily discarded, but researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, University of California, Riverside, and University of Notre Dame have developed an investigative non-clinical imaging technique that allows the study of the removed clots to better understand their formation and how they come to be.
This so-called “optical clearing” technique makes clots easier to see through, allowing for up to a millimeter of penetration of light into a clot.
