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ArticleBiomedical optics express2017

Ultrawidefield microscope for high-speed fluorescence imaging and targeted optogenetic stimulation.

Christopher A Werley, Miao-Ping Chien, Adam E Cohen

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Article in Biomedical optics express, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers.

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49 citing papers in PubMed.

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3 authors.

Christopher A WerleyHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Miao-Ping ChienHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Adam E CohenHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

Funding

Engineering Microbial Rhodopsins as Optical Voltage SensorsR01EB012498 · NIBIB · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI COHEN, ADAM EZRA · 2011 to 2014
$1.5M
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB012498
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The rapid increase in the number and quality of fluorescent reporters and optogenetic actuators has yielded a powerful set of tools for recording and controlling cellular state and function. To achieve the full benefit of these tools requires improved optical systems with high light collection efficiency, high spatial and temporal resolution, and patterned optical stimulation, in a wide field of view (FOV). Here we describe our 'Firefly' microscope, which achieves these goals in a Ø6 mm FOV. The Firefly optical system is optimized for simultaneous photostimulation and fluorescence imaging in cultured cells. All but one of the optical elements are commercially available, yet the microscope achieves 10-fold higher light collection efficiency at its design magnification than the comparable commercially available microscope using the same objective. The Firefly microscope enables all-optical electrophysiology ('Optopatch') in cultured neurons with a throughput and information content unmatched by other neuronal phenotyping systems. This capability opens possibilities in disease modeling and phenotypic drug screening. We also demonstrate applications of the system to voltage and calcium recordings in human induced pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocytes.

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(170.2655) Functional monitoring and imaging(170.3880) Medical and biological imaging(180.2520) Fluorescence microscopy

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PMID29296505
PMCPMC5745120

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