Circuit investigations with open-source miniaturized microscopes: past, present and future

D Aharoni, TM Hoogland - Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The ability to simultaneously image the spatiotemporal activity signatures from many
neurons during unrestrained vertebrate behaviors has become possible through the …

Technologies for imaging neural activity in large volumes

N Ji, J Freeman, SL Smith - Nature neuroscience, 2016 - nature.com
Neural circuitry has evolved to form distributed networks that act dynamically across large
volumes. Conventional microscopy collects data from individual planes and cannot sample …

[HTML][HTML] Large-scale two-photon calcium imaging in freely moving mice

W Zong, HA Obenhaus, ER Skytøen, H Eneqvist… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
We developed a miniaturized two-photon microscope (MINI2P) for fast, high-resolution,
multiplane calcium imaging of over 1,000 neurons at a time in freely moving mice. With a …

110 μm thin endo-microscope for deep-brain in vivo observations of neuronal connectivity, activity and blood flow dynamics

M Stibůrek, P Ondráčková, T Tučková, S Turtaev… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Light-based in-vivo brain imaging relies on light transport over large distances of highly
scattering tissues. Scattering gradually reduces imaging contrast and resolution, making it …

NINscope, a versatile miniscope for multi-region circuit investigations

A de Groot, BJG van den Boom, RM van Genderen… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Miniaturized fluorescence microscopes (miniscopes) have been instrumental to monitor
neural signals during unrestrained behavior and their open-source versions have made …

Fast high-resolution miniature two-photon microscopy for brain imaging in freely behaving mice

W Zong, R Wu, M Li, Y Hu, Y Li, J Li, H Rong, H Wu… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Developments in miniaturized microscopes have enabled visualization of brain activities
and structural dynamics in animals engaging in self-determined behaviors. However, it …

Subcellular spatial resolution achieved for deep-brain imaging in vivo using a minimally invasive multimode fiber

SA Vasquez-Lopez, R Turcotte, V Koren… - Light: science & …, 2018 - nature.com
Achieving intravital optical imaging with diffraction-limited spatial resolution of deep-brain
structures represents an important step toward the goal of understanding the mammalian …

Minimally invasive multimode optical fiber microendoscope for deep brain fluorescence imaging

S Ohayon, A Caravaca-Aguirre, R Piestun… - Biomedical optics …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
A major open challenge in neuroscience is the ability to measure and perturb neural activity
in vivo from well defined neural sub-populations at cellular resolution anywhere in the brain …

State-specific gating of salient cues by midbrain dopaminergic input to basal amygdala

A Lutas, H Kucukdereli, O Alturkistani, C Carty… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Basal amygdala (BA) neurons guide associative learning via acquisition of responses to
stimuli that predict salient appetitive or aversive outcomes. We examined the learning-and …

[HTML][HTML] Through the looking glass: a review of cranial window technology for optical access to the brain

SW Cramer, RE Carter, JD Aronson… - Journal of neuroscience …, 2021 - Elsevier
Deciphering neurologic function is a daunting task, requiring understanding the neuronal
networks and emergent properties that arise from the interactions among single neurons …