Monitoring cerebral hemodynamics following optogenetic stimulation via optical coherence tomography.

Atry, Farid; Frye, Seth; Richner, Thomas J; Brodnick, Sarah K; Soehartono, Alana; Williams, Justin; Pashaie, Ramin · IEEE Trans Biomed Eng · 2015

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

In this article, spectral domain optical coherence tomography is used to measure the hemodynamic response induced by optogenetic stimulation in the somatosensory cortex of transgenic mice. By analyzing the 3-D angiograms and Doppler measurements produced by coherence tomography, we observed significant increase in blood flow as a result of increased vessel diameter and blood velocity following optical stimulation of cortical neurons. Such distinct responses were not observed in control experiments where the brain of wild-type mice were exposed to the same light pulses.

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