Evidence map›Paper›PMID 41233541›Full record

ArticleNature methods2025

Confocal Airy beam oblique light-sheet tomography for brain-wide cell type distribution and morphology.

Xiaoli Qi, Rodrigo Muñoz-Castañeda, Yuanlei Yue, Sheng Xiao, Liya Ding, Arun Narasimhan, Xin Chen, Wei Wang, Yuanyuan Li, Corey Elowsky and 8 more

Erratum issuedAbstract read
PubMed Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Nature methods, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Not yet cited in PubMed.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
0citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

18 authors.

Xiaoli Qi *Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA. qixl2005@outlook.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7881-3365
Rodrigo Muñoz-Castañeda *Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA.
Yuanlei Yue *Changping Laboratory, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0552-2911
Sheng Xiao *Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8959-2388
Liya DingNew Cornerstone Science Laboratory, SEU-ALLEN Joint Center, Institute for Brain and Intelligence, Southeast University, Nanjing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1209-875X
Arun NarasimhanCold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA.
Xin ChenNew Cornerstone Science Laboratory, SEU-ALLEN Joint Center, Institute for Brain and Intelligence, Southeast University, Nanjing, China.
Wei WangAppel Alzheimer's Disease Research Institute, Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Yuanyuan LiMinistry of Education Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computation and Signal Processing, Information Materials and Intelligent Sensing Laboratory of Anhui Province, School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Anhui University, Hefei, China.
Corey ElowskyCold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA.
Jason PalmerCold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA.
Rhonda DrewesCold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA.
Jianjun SunCold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA.
Jinglei WuBeijing Information Science and Technology University, Beijing, China.
Lei QuNew Cornerstone Science Laboratory, SEU-ALLEN Joint Center, Institute for Brain and Intelligence, Southeast University, Nanjing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2129-5253
Zhuhao WuAppel Alzheimer's Disease Research Institute, Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2471-0555
Hanchuan PengNew Cornerstone Science Laboratory, Institute for Brain and Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. h@braintell.org.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3478-3942
Pavel OstenCold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA. posten@theracast.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6385-7541

Funding

Tool and Technology Development CoreU19MH114821 · NIMH · COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY · PI ZADOR, ANTHONY M · 2017 to 2021
$64.5M
Collaboratory for atlasing cell type anatomy in the female and male mouse brainU01MH114824 · NIMH · COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY · PI MITRA, PARTHA PRATIM · 2017 to 2021
$11.7M
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (NIH) U01MH114824U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (NIH) U19MH114821
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Advanced brain-wide mapping is critical for addressing complex questions in neuroscience. However, current imaging methods are limited by throughput, resolution and signal-to-noise ratio, constraining their broader applicability. Here, we present confocal Airy beam integrated with single-photon oblique light-sheet tomography (CAB-OLST): a system that integrates single-photon excitation with a scanned Airy beam light sheet, virtual slit detection and automated mechanical sectioning. CAB-OLST enables high-throughput, high-resolution and high-signal-to-noise ratio volumetric imaging, achieving an optical resolution of 0.77 μm × 0.49 μm × 2.61 μm. This allows for mouse brain-wide cell type distribution mapping at a voxel size of 0.37 μm × 0.37 μm × 1.77 μm in 10 h and single-neuron projectome imaging with a voxel size of 0.26 μm × 0.26 μm × 1.06 μm over 58 h. Compared to existing light-sheet and point-scanning systems, CAB-OLST provides a scalable and robust platform for comprehensive neuronal morphology reconstruction and high-precision cell atlas generation.

Indexed as

BrainNeuronsTomographyAnimalsImage Processing, Computer-AssistedImaging, Three-DimensionalMiceMicroscopy, ConfocalSignal-To-Noise Ratio

Identifiers

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.