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Multicolor multiscale brain imaging with chromatic multiphoton serial microscopy

Abdeladim, Lamiae; Matho, Katherine S.; Clavreul, Solene; Mahou, Pierre; Sintes, Jean-Marc; Solinas, Xavier; Arganda-Carreras, Ignacio; Turney, Stephen G.; Lichtman, Jeff W.; Chessel, Anatole; Bemelmans, Alexis-Pierre; Loulier, Karine; Supatto, Willy; Live

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
2019
VL / 10 - BP / - EP /
abstract
Large-scale microscopy approaches are transforming brain imaging, but currently lack efficient multicolor contrast modalities. We introduce chromatic multiphoton serial (ChroMS) microscopy, a method integrating one-shot multicolor multiphoton excitation through wavelength mixing and serial block-face image acquisition. This approach provides organ-scale micrometric imaging of spectrally distinct fluorescent proteins and label-free nonlinear signals with constant micrometer-scale resolution and sub-micron channel registration over the entire imaged volume. We demonstrate tridimensional (3D) multicolor imaging over several cubic millimeters as well as brain-wide serial 2D multichannel imaging. We illustrate the strengths of this method through color-based 3D analysis of astrocyte morphology and contacts in the mouse cerebral cortex, tracing of individual pyramidal neurons within densely Brainbow-labeled tissue, and multiplexed whole-brain mapping of axonal projections labeled with spectrally distinct tracers. ChroMS will be an asset for multiscale and system-level studies in neuroscience and beyond.

AccesS level

Gold DOAJ, Green published, Green accepted

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