PUBLICATION
Remote z-scanning with a macroscopic voice coil motor for fast 3D multiphoton laser scanning microscopy
- Authors
- Rupprecht, P., Prendergast, A., Wyart, C., Friedrich, R.W.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-160528-5
- Date
- 2016
- Source
- Biomedical Optics Express 7: 1656-71 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Friedrich, Rainer, Prendergast, Andrew, Wyart, Claire
- Keywords
- (120.4880) Optomechanics, (120.5800) Scanners, (170.0170) Medical optics and biotechnology, (170.5380) Physiology, (170.5810) Scanning microscopy, (180.6900) Three-dimensional microscopy
- MeSH Terms
- none
- PubMed
- 27231612 Full text @ Biomed. Opt. Express
Citation
Rupprecht, P., Prendergast, A., Wyart, C., Friedrich, R.W. (2016) Remote z-scanning with a macroscopic voice coil motor for fast 3D multiphoton laser scanning microscopy. Biomedical Optics Express. 7:1656-71.
Abstract
There is a high demand for 3D multiphoton imaging in neuroscience and other fields but scanning in axial direction presents technical challenges. We developed a focusing technique based on a remote movable mirror that is conjugate to the specimen plane and translated by a voice coil motor. We constructed cost-effective z-scanning modules from off-the-shelf components that can be mounted onto standard multiphoton laser scanning microscopes to extend scan patterns from 2D to 3D. Systems were designed for large objectives and provide high resolution, high speed and a large z-scan range (>300 μm). We used these systems for 3D multiphoton calcium imaging in the adult zebrafish brain and measured odor-evoked activity patterns across >1500 neurons with single-neuron resolution and high signal-to-noise ratio.
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