High-speed fiber-optic scanning nonlinear endomicroscopy for imaging neuron dynamicsin vivo

Opt Lett. 2020 Jul 1;45(13):3605-3608. doi: 10.1364/OL.396023.

Abstract

Fiber-optic-based two-photon fluorescence endomicroscopy is emerging as an enabling technology for in vivo histological imaging of internal organs and functional neuronal imaging on freely-behaving animals. However, high-speed imaging remains challenging due to the expense of miniaturization and lack of suited fast beam scanners. For many applications, a higher imaging speed is highly desired, especially for monitoring functional dynamics such as transient dendritic responses in neuroscience. This Letter reports the development of a fast fiber-optic scanning endo-microscope with an imaging speed higher than 26 frames/s. In vivo neural dynamics imaging with the high-speed endomicroscope was performed on a freely-behaving mouse over the primary motor cortex that expressed GCaMP6m. The results demonstrate its capability of real-time monitoring of transient neuronal dynamics with very fine temporal resolution.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Mice
  • Microscopy, Fluorescence / instrumentation*
  • Motor Cortex / cytology
  • Neurons / metabolism*
  • Optical Fibers*
  • Time Factors