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Optically sensing neural activity without imaging

Advanced computational imaging techniques have the potential to extract neural activity patterns from scattered data without reconstructing images.

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Fig. 1: Neural activity extracted from data obscured by scattering.

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Wetzstein, G., Kauvar, I. Optically sensing neural activity without imaging. Nat. Photonics 14, 340–341 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-020-0642-9

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