• DocumentCode
    2398843
  • Title

    All optical histology: serial ablation and multiphoton imaging of neuronal tissue with femtosecond laser pulses

  • Author

    Tsai, Philbert S. ; Friedman, Beth ; Uerri, Agustin I Ifarra ; Thompson, Beverly D. ; Lev-Ram, Varda ; Schaffer, Chris B. ; Xiong, Qing ; Tsie, Roger Y. ; Squier, Jeffrey A. ; Kleinfeld, David

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., California Univ., USA
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    27-28 Oct. 2003
  • Firstpage
    485
  • Abstract
    We use femtosecond laser pulses to serially image and ablate neuronal tissue. This allows histological imaging throughout the entire depth of the brain; a procedure that is unattainable by multiphoton imaging alone.
  • Keywords
    biological tissues; biomedical optical imaging; brain; high-speed optical techniques; laser ablation; laser applications in medicine; neurophysiology; all optical histology; brain; femtosecond laser pulses; histological imaging; laser ablation; multiphoton imaging; neuronal tissue; Fluorescence; Image reconstruction; Laser ablation; Mice; Optical buffering; Optical imaging; Optical pulses; Optical scattering; Proteins; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2003. LEOS 2003. The 16th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
  • ISSN
    1092-8081
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7888-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LEOS.2003.1252885
  • Filename
    1252885