Understanding the Nervous System: Lessons from Frontiers in Neurophotonics

The Frontiers in Neurophotonics Symposium is a biennial event that brings together neurobiologists and physicists/engineers who share interest in the development of leading-edge photonics-based approaches to understand and manipulate the nervous system, from its individual molecular components to complex networks in the intact brain. In this Community paper, we highlight several topics that have been featured at the symposium that took place in October 2022 in Québec City, Canada.

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Special Section Guest Editorial: Frontiers in Neurophotonics.

De Koninck Y, De Koninck P, Devor A, Lavoie-Cardinal F Neurophotonics. 2024; 11(1):014401.

PMID: 38550388 PMC: 10973712. DOI: 10.1117/1.NPh.11.1.014401.

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