Kilohertz two-photon brain imaging in awake mice.

Zhang, Tong; Hernandez, Oscar; Chrapkiewicz, Radosław; Shai, Adam; Wagner, Mark J; Zhang, Yanping; Wu, Cheng-Hsun; Li, Jin Zhong et al. · Nat Methods · 2019

basic_science · Level V

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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 µm<sup>2</sup> areas at rates up to 1 kHz. Using this microscope, we visualized microcirculatory flow, fast venous constrictions and neuronal Ca<sup>2+</sup> spiking with millisecond-scale timing resolution in the brains of awake mice.

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