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ArticlePloS one2023

All-synchronized picosecond pulses and time-gated detection improve the spatial resolution of two-photon STED microscopy in brain tissue imaging.

Hirokazu Ishii, Kohei Otomo, Ching-Pu Chang, Miwako Yamasaki, Masahiko Watanabe, Hiroyuki Yokoyama, Tomomi Nemoto

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Article in PloS one, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Hirokazu IshiiExploratory Research Center on Life and Living Systems (ExCELLS), National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-8391-194X
Kohei OtomoExploratory Research Center on Life and Living Systems (ExCELLS), National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki, Japan.
Ching-Pu ChangExploratory Research Center on Life and Living Systems (ExCELLS), National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki, Japan.
Miwako YamasakiFaculty of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
Masahiko WatanabeFaculty of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
Hiroyuki YokoyamaNew Industry Creation Hatchery Center (NICHe), Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
Tomomi NemotoExploratory Research Center on Life and Living Systems (ExCELLS), National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-6102-1495
National Institutes of Natural Sciences · JPHokkaido University · JPTohoku University · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Super-resolution in two-photon excitation (2PE) microscopy offers new approaches for visualizing the deep inside the brain functions at the nanoscale. In this study, we developed a novel 2PE stimulated-emission-depletion (STED) microscope with all-synchronized picosecond pulse light sources and time-gated fluorescence detection, namely, all-pulsed 2PE-gSTED microscopy. The implementation of time-gating is critical to excluding undesirable signals derived from brain tissues. Even in a case using subnanosecond pulses for STED, the impact of time-gating was not negligible; the spatial resolution in the image of the brain tissue was improved by approximately 1.4 times compared with non time-gated image. This finding demonstrates that time-gating is more useful than previously thought for improving spatial resolution in brain tissue imaging. This microscopy will facilitate deeper super-resolution observation of the fine structure of neuronal dendritic spines and the intracellular dynamics in brain tissue.

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