Multiphoton Microscopy for Brain Activity Imaging
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- Sato Masaaki
- 北海道大学大学院医学研究院 神経薬理学教室
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- Azuma Kazuha
- 北海道大学大学院医学研究院 神経薬理学教室
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- Iwatani Yu
- 北海道大学大学院医学研究院 神経薬理学教室
Bibliographic Information
- Other Title
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- 脳活動イメージングのための多光子顕微鏡技術
Description
<p>Multiphoton excitation is a nonlinear optical process in which fluorescent molecules are excited by simultaneously absorbing multiple photons. Among microscopy techniques based on multiphoton excitation, two-photon microscopy (2PM) uses near-infrared pulsed lasers that penetrate well into highly light-scattering biological tissues and has exerted a profound impact on neuroscience, especially since the 2000s, as it allows for imaging of activity of complex neural circuits deep within the brain at single-cell resolution. On the other hand, typical 2PM scans the entire target volume with a focal point of about 1 μm3. This has limited its ability to observe the fast dynamics of neural circuit activity over a large brain area. To overcome this problem, recent 2PM takes advantage of various optical techniques to image a wider field of view at a faster sampling rate. Other technological innovations in multiphoton microscopy include three-photon microscopy to image the deeper brain more clearly, and miniaturized multiphoton microscopes that can be attached to the head of an animal to image brain circuit activity at a high resolution during freely-moving behavior.</p>
Journal
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- KENBIKYO
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KENBIKYO 59 (1), 32-36, 2024-04-30
The Japanese Society of Microscopy
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1390018672471439232
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- ISSN
- 24342386
- 13490958
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- Text Lang
- ja
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
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- Abstract License Flag
- Disallowed