Shaped two-photon excitation deep inside scattering tissue

mag(2011)

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Light is the tool of the 21st century. New photosensitive tools offer the possibility to monitor and control neuronal activity from the sub-cellular to the integrative level. This ongoing revolution has motivated the development of new optical methods for light stimulation. Among them, it has been recently demonstrated that a promising approach is based on the use of wavefront shaping to generate optically confined extended excitation patterns. This was achieved by combining the technique of temporal focusing with different approaches for lateral light shaping including low numerical aperture Gaussian beams, holographic beams and beams created with the generalized phase contrast mthod. What is needed now is a precise characterization of the effect of scattering on hese different methods in order to extend their use for in depth excitation. Here we present a theoretical and experimental study on the effect of scattering on the propagation of wavefront shaped beams. Results from fixed and acute cortical slices show that temporally focused spatial patterns are extremely robust against the effects of scattering and this permits their three-dimensional confinement for depths up to 550 {\mu}m.
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neuronal activity,spatial pattern,three dimensional,numerical aperture,physical optics,phase contrast
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