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Optimization and dissemination of non-linear Acousto-Optic Lens two-photon microscopy for high speed multiscale 3D imaging

用于高速多尺度 3D 成像的非线性声光透镜双光子显微镜的优化和推广

基本信息

批准号：
10240525
负责人：
JESSICA A CARDIN
金额：
$ 36.41万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2019
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2019-09-01 至 2023-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10240525
关键词：
3-Dimensional Acoustics Animals Attention Axon Biological Brain Cells Computer software Data Analyses Dendrites Development Diamond Dimensions Feedback Functional Imaging Funding Generations Hybrids Image Individual Knowledge Lasers Length Maps Measurement Methods Microscope Microscopy Monitor Motion Movement Neurons Neurosciences Neurosciences Research Neurotransmitters Optics Performance Population Property Pyramidal Cells Reporter Resolution Scanning Ships Signal Transduction Speed Spottings Standardization Structure System Technology Testing Three-Dimensional Imaging Time Trees Variant adaptive optics analysis pipeline arbitrary spin automated analysis awake base brain tissue commercialization cost data format data standards data structure experimental study high resolution imaging imaging approach imaging facilities imaging software improved interest lens microscopic imaging nervous system disorder neural circuit neuronal circuitry neurotransmission neurotransmitter release new technology novel open source optical imaging prototype spatiotemporal temporal measurement tool two photon microscopy two-photon ultra high resolution user-friendly voltage

项目摘要

PROJECT SUMMARY To understand brain function, it is essential to identify how information is represented in neuronal population activity and how it is transformed by individual neurons as it flows through microcircuits. Two-photon (2P) microscopy is a core tool for this because it enables neuronal activity to be monitored at high spatial resolution deep within brain tissue in behaving animals. However, the temporal resolution of conventional galvanometer-based 2P microscopy severely limits measurements of fast signaling in 3D neuronal circuits. Acousto-optic lens (AOL) microscopy, which enables fast focussing and selective imaging of regions of interest distributed within the imaging volume, has substantially improved the temporal resolution of 3D 2P microscopy. But current AOL microscopes, which rely on linear acoustic drive waveforms, suffer from limitations that make them inefficient to monitor signaling in structures that project in the Z dimension. Each change in the focus requires a 24 µs ‘dead time’ to refill the AOL aperture and continuous line scanning is restricted to the selected X-Y focal plane, limiting imaging rates for 3D dendritic trees to a few Hz, rather than the 100-1000 Hz required for monitoring neurotransmitter reporters and voltage indicators. The main aim of this project is to optimize and disseminate nonlinear AOL 3D microscopy, a technology we have invented to overcome these limitations by enabling ultra-fast line scanning (up to 40 kHz) in any arbitrary direction in X, Y and Z. By developing a prototype nonlinear AOL 2P microscope with real time correction of brain movement, we have demonstrated the performance of this technology for high-speed multiscale 3D imaging of neural circuits in awake behaving animals. We will build on these results by optimizing nonlinear AOL microscopy for imaging entire 3D dendritic trees and the surrounding neuronal population at unprecedented speeds. We will develop variants of this dendritic ‘arboreal imaging’ approach to provide low spatial resolution, ultra-high-speed 3D imaging (up to 1 kHz) by combining the fast scanning and adaptive optics properties of nonlinear AOLs. We will also extend the real time FPGA analysis used in our closed loop 3D movement correction to enable ‘attentional imaging’ where active regions of a dendritic tree, or circuit, are rapidly detected and imaged at higher spatio-temporal resolution. These applications will provide the temporal resolution required for monitoring voltage across the entire 3D dendritic tree of pyramidal cells in awake animals for the first time. Moreover, attentional imaging will enable neurotransmitter release to be mapped at high spatiotemporal resolution. Low cost dissemination of this powerful new technology will be achieved by providing US labs and an imaging facility with compact nonlinear AOL modules that will be added to their existing conventional 2P microscopes. By extending our open source microscope GUI software, standardizing data formats with NWB2 and refining automated analysis pipelines, we will also deliver reliable user-friendly microscope control and a semiautomated data analysis framework for the collaborators to carry out experiments on a range of different neural circuits.

项目总结