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ArticleFrontiers in cell and developmental biology2022

PyZebrascope: An Open-Source Platform for Brain-Wide Neural Activity Imaging in Zebrafish.

Rani Barbara, Madhu Nagathihalli Kantharaju, Ravid Haruvi, Kyle Harrington, Takashi Kawashima

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Article in Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Rani BarbaraDepartment of Brain Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
Madhu Nagathihalli KantharajuMax-Delbrück-Centrum for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany.
Ravid HaruviDepartment of Brain Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
Kyle HarringtonMax-Delbrück-Centrum for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany.
Takashi KawashimaDepartment of Brain Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
Weizmann Institute of Science · ILHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin · DEOak Ridge National Laboratory · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding how neurons interact across the brain to control animal behaviors is one of the central goals in neuroscience. Recent developments in fluorescent microscopy and genetically-encoded calcium indicators led to the establishment of whole-brain imaging methods in zebrafish, which record neural activity across a brain-wide volume with single-cell resolution. Pioneering studies of whole-brain imaging used custom light-sheet microscopes, and their operation relied on commercially developed and maintained software not available globally. Hence it has been challenging to disseminate and develop the technology in the research community. Here, we present PyZebrascope, an open-source Python platform designed for neural activity imaging in zebrafish using light-sheet microscopy. PyZebrascope has intuitive user interfaces and supports essential features for whole-brain imaging, such as two orthogonal excitation beams and eye damage prevention. Its camera module can handle image data throughput of up to 800 MB/s from camera acquisition to file writing while maintaining stable CPU and memory usage. Its modular architecture allows the inclusion of advanced algorithms for microscope control and image processing. As a proof of concept, we implemented a novel automatic algorithm for maximizing the image resolution in the brain by precisely aligning the excitation beams to the image focal plane. PyZebrascope enables whole-brain neural activity imaging in fish behaving in a virtual reality environment. Thus, PyZebrascope will help disseminate and develop light-sheet microscopy techniques in the neuroscience community and advance our understanding of whole-brain neural dynamics during animal behaviors.

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image processinglightsheet microscopyopen sourcesoftwarezebrafish

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