Fast Two-photon in Vivo Imaging with Three-dimensional Random-access Scanning in Large Tissue Volumes

Overview

Journal Nat Methods

Specialties Biomedical Engineering
Pathology

Date 2012 Jan 11

PMID 22231641

Citations 175

Authors

Gergely Katona

Gergely Szalay

Pal Maak

Attila Kaszas

Mate Veress

Daniel Hillier

Balazs Chiovini

E Sylvester Vizi

Botond Roska

Balazs Rozsa

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Abstract

The understanding of brain computations requires methods that read out neural activity on different spatial and temporal scales. Following signal propagation and integration across a neuron and recording the concerted activity of hundreds of neurons pose distinct challenges, and the design of imaging systems has been mostly focused on tackling one of the two operations. We developed a high-resolution, acousto-optic two-photon microscope with continuous three-dimensional (3D) trajectory and random-access scanning modes that reaches near-cubic-millimeter scan range and can be adapted to imaging different spatial scales. We performed 3D calcium imaging of action potential backpropagation and dendritic spike forward propagation at sub-millisecond temporal resolution in mouse brain slices. We also performed volumetric random-access scanning calcium imaging of spontaneous and visual stimulation-evoked activity in hundreds of neurons of the mouse visual cortex in vivo. These experiments demonstrate the subcellular and network-scale imaging capabilities of our system.

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