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OPTOACOUSTIC IMAGING

Maps of neuronal activity across the mouse brain

High-speed optoacoustic tomography can monitor the neural activity of a whole mouse brain, by using a genetically encoded calcium sensor originally developed for fluorescence microscopy.

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Fig. 1: Functional optoacoustic imaging of a whole mouse brain.

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Andreoni, A., Tian, L. Maps of neuronal activity across the mouse brain. Nat Biomed Eng 3, 335–336 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-019-0403-6

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