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ArticleThe Journal of physiology2014

Rapid mapping of visual receptive fields by filtered back projection: application to multi-neuronal electrophysiology and imaging.

Jamie Johnston, Huayu Ding, Sofie H Seibel, Federico Esposti, Leon Lagnado

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Article in The Journal of physiology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jamie JohnstonMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, UK Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QG, UK.
Huayu DingMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, UK.
Sofie H SeibelMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, UK Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QG, UK.
Federico EspostiMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, UK.
Leon LagnadoMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, UK Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QG, UK l.lagnado@sussex.ac.uk.
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology · GBUniversity of Sussex · GB

Funding

Medical Research CouncilWellcome Trust 08320
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neurons in the visual system vary widely in the spatiotemporal properties of their receptive fields (RFs), and understanding these variations is key to elucidating how visual information is processed. We present a new approach for mapping RFs based on the filtered back projection (FBP), an algorithm used for tomographic reconstructions. To estimate RFs, a series of bars were flashed across the retina at pseudo-random positions and at a minimum of five orientations. We apply this method to retinal neurons and show that it can accurately recover the spatial RF and impulse response of ganglion cells recorded on a multi-electrode array. We also demonstrate its utility for in vivo imaging by mapping the RFs of an array of bipolar cell synapses expressing a genetically encoded Ca(2+) indicator. We find that FBP offers several advantages over the commonly used spike-triggered average (STA): (i) ON and OFF components of a RF can be separated; (ii) the impulse response can be reconstructed at sample rates of 125 Hz, rather than the refresh rate of a monitor; (iii) FBP reveals the response properties of neurons that are not evident using STA, including those that display orientation selectivity, or fire at low mean spike rates; and (iv) the FBP method is fast, allowing the RFs of all the bipolar cell synaptic terminals in a field of view to be reconstructed in under 4 min. Use of the FBP will benefit investigations of the visual system that employ electrophysiology or optical reporters to measure activity across populations of neurons.

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Visual FieldsAction PotentialsAlgorithmsAnimalsBrain MappingRetinal NeuronsSynapsesVisual PathwaysZebrafish

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PMID25172952
PMCPMC4259530
OpenAlexW2111962186

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