高速雙光子顯微鏡可用於小鼠大腦成像
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小柯機器人發布時間:2019/10/29 14:39:21
近日,美國史丹福大學Mark J. Schnitzer及其研究小組研發出可用於清醒小鼠大腦成像的千赫茲雙光子顯微鏡。這一研究成果於2019年10月28日在線發表於國際學術期刊《自然—方法學》。
研究人員介紹,雙光子顯微鏡是在散射介質中成像的主要技術,通常可提供約10–30 Hz的幀採集速率。
為了觀察高速現象,研究人員建立了一臺具有400個照明光束的雙光子顯微鏡,其能夠以高達1 kHz的速率對211000 µm2面積樣品進行採集。使用此顯微鏡,研究人員可以在清醒小鼠的大腦中觀察到微循環血流、快速靜脈收縮和神經元鈣離子升高,並具有毫秒級的時間解析度。
附:英文原文
Title: Kilohertz two-photon brain imaging in awake mice
Author: Tong Zhang, Oscar Hernandez, Radosaw Chrapkiewicz, Adam Shai, Mark J. Wagner, Yanping Zhang, Cheng-Hsun Wu, Jin Zhong Li, Masatoshi Inoue, Yiyang Gong, Biafra Ahanonu, Hongkui Zeng, Haruhiko Bito, Mark J. Schnitzer
Issue&Volume: 2019-10-28
Abstract: Two-photon microscopy is a mainstay technique for imaging in scattering media and normally provides frame-acquisition rates of ~10–30 Hz. To track high-speed phenomena, we created a two-photon microscope with 400 illumination beams that collectively sample 95,000–211,000 µm2 areas at rates up to 1 kHz. Using this microscope, we visualized microcirculatory flow, fast venous constrictions and neuronal Ca2+ spiking with millisecond-scale timing resolution in the brains of awake mice.
DOI: 10.1038/s41592-019-0597-2
Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-019-0597-2