Multiplexed aberration measurement for deep tissue imaging in vivo

Nat Methods. 2014 Oct;11(10):1037-40. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.3068. Epub 2014 Aug 17.

Abstract

We describe an adaptive optics method that modulates the intensity or phase of light rays at multiple pupil segments in parallel to determine the sample-induced aberration. Applicable to fluorescent protein-labeled structures of arbitrary complexity, it allowed us to obtain diffraction-limited resolution in various samples in vivo. For the strongly scattering mouse brain, a single aberration correction improved structural and functional imaging of fine neuronal processes over a large imaging volume.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Brain / metabolism*
  • Caenorhabditis elegans
  • Fluorescent Dyes / chemistry
  • Fourier Analysis
  • Histones / chemistry
  • Light*
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred C57BL
  • Microscopy, Fluorescence / methods
  • Neuroimaging / methods*
  • Optics and Photonics*
  • Protein Processing, Post-Translational
  • Proteins / chemistry
  • Pupil / physiology
  • Visual Cortex / physiology
  • Zebrafish

Substances

  • Fluorescent Dyes
  • Histones
  • Proteins