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ReviewAnnual review of neuroscience2019

Light-Sheet Microscopy in Neuroscience.

Elizabeth M C Hillman, Venkatakaushik Voleti, Wenze Li, Hang Yu

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Review in Annual review of neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 103 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
103citing papers in PubMed
26.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

103 citing papers in PubMed, 193 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Elizabeth M C HillmanDepartments of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology and Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA; email: Elizabeth.hillman@columbia.edu.
Venkatakaushik VoletiDepartments of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology and Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA; email: Elizabeth.hillman@columbia.edu.
Wenze LiDepartments of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology and Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA; email: Elizabeth.hillman@columbia.edu.
Hang YuDepartments of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology and Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA; email: Elizabeth.hillman@columbia.edu.
Columbia University · US

Funding

Modeling multi-area dynamics during motor controlU19NS104649 · NINDS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI COSTA, RUI M. · 2017 to 2021
$15.3M
SCAPE microscopy for high-speed 3D imaging of cellular function in behaving animals: Continued innovation, optimization, and disseminationUF1NS108213 · NINDS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI HILLMAN, ELIZABETH M. C. · 2018 to 2018
$3.5M
Mechanisms of second heart field development regulated by Nkx genesR01HL131438 · NHLBI · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI TARGOFF, KIMARA L · 2017 to 2021
$2.1M
SCAPE microscopy for high-speed in-vivo volumetric microscopy in behaving organismsU01NS094296 · NINDS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI HILLMAN, ELIZABETH M. C. · 2015 to 2017
$2.0M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL131438NINDS NIH HHS U01 NS094296NINDS NIH HHS U19 NS104649NINDS NIH HHS UF1 NS108213
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Light-sheet microscopy is an imaging approach that offers unique advantages for a diverse range of neuroscience applications. Unlike point-scanning techniques such as confocal and two-photon microscopy, light-sheet microscopes illuminate an entire plane of tissue, while imaging this plane onto a camera. Although early implementations of light sheet were optimized for longitudinal imaging of embryonic development in small specimens, emerging implementations are capable of capturing light-sheet images in freely moving, unconstrained specimens and even the intact in vivo mammalian brain. Meanwhile, the unique photobleaching and signal-to-noise benefits afforded by light-sheet microscopy's parallelized detection deliver the ability to perform volumetric imaging at much higher speeds than can be achieved using point scanning. This review describes the basic principles and evolution of light-sheet microscopy, followed by perspectives on emerging applications and opportunities for both imaging large, cleared, and expanded neural tissues and high-speed, functional imaging in vivo.

Indexed as

MicroscopyNeuroimagingNeurosciencesAnimalsBrainHumansModels, AnimalSignal-To-Noise Ratiofunctional imagingGCaMPlight sheetmicroscopytissue clearing

Identifiers

PMID31283896
PMCPMC6800245
OpenAlexW2960054497

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