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Josiah R. Boivin

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arXiv2019

3D Deep Learning Enables Fast Imaging of Spines through Scattering Media by Temporal Focusing Microscopy

Today the gold standard for in vivo imaging through scattering tissue is the point-scanning two-photon microscope (PSTPM). Especially in neuroscience, PSTPM is widely used for deep-tissue imaging in the brain. However, due to sequential scanning, PSTPM is slow. Temporal focusing microscopy (TFM), on the other hand, focuses femtosecond pulsed laser light temporally, while keeping wide-field illumination, and is consequently much faster. However, due to the use of a camera detector, TFM suffers from the scattering of emission photons. As a result, TFM produces images of poor spatial resolution and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), burying fluorescent signals from small structures such as dendritic spines. In this work, we present a data-driven deep learning approach to improve resolution and SNR of TFM images. Using a 3D convolutional neural network (CNN) we build a map from TFM to PSTPM modalities, to enable fast TFM imaging while maintaining high-resolution through scattering media. We demonstrate this approach for in vivo imaging of dendritic spines on pyramidal neurons in the mouse visual cortex. We show that our trained network rapidly outputs high-resolution images that recover biologically relevant features previously buried in the scattered fluorescence in the TFM images. In vivo imaging that combines TFM and the proposed 3D convolution neural network is one to two orders of magnitude faster than PSTPM but retains the high resolution and SNR necessary to analyze small fluorescent structures. The proposed 3D convolution deep network could also be potentially beneficial for improving the performance of many speed-demanding deep-tissue imaging applications such as in vivo voltage imaging.

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arXiv2019

Multiline Orthogonal Scanning Temporal Focusing (mosTF) Microscopy for Scattering Reduction in High-speed in vivo Brain Imaging

Temporal focusing two-photon microscopy enables high resolution imaging of fine structures in vivo over a large volume. A limitation of temporal focusing is that signal-to-background ratio and resolution degrade rapidly with increasing imaging depth. This degradation originates from the scattered emission photons are widely distributed resulting in a strong background. We have developed Multiline Orthogonal Scanning Temporal Focusing (mosTF) microscopy that overcomes this problem. mosTF captures a sequence of images at each scan location of the excitation line, followed by a reconstruction algorithm reassigns scattered photons back to the correct scan position. We demonstrate mosTF by acquiring mice neuronal images in vivo. Our results show remarkably improvements with mosTF for in vivo brain imaging while maintaining its speed advantage.

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arXiv2019

De-scattering with Excitation Patterning (DEEP) Enables Rapid Wide-field Imaging Through Scattering Media

From multi-photon imaging penetrating millimeters deep through scattering biological tissue, to super-resolution imaging conquering the diffraction limit, optical imaging techniques have greatly advanced in recent years. Notwithstanding, a key unmet challenge in all these imaging techniques is to perform rapid wide-field imaging through a turbid medium. Strategies such as active wave-front correction and multi-photon excitation, both used for deep tissue imaging; or wide-field total-internal-refection illumination, used for super-resolution imaging; can generate arbitrary excitation patterns over a large field-of-view through or under turbid media. In these cases, throughput advantage gained by wide-field excitation is lost due to the use of point detection. To address this challenge, here we introduce a novel technique called De-scattering with Excitation Patterning, or 'DEEP', which uses patterned excitation followed by wide-field detection with computational imaging. We use two-photon temporal focusing (TFM) to demonstrate our approach at multiple scattering lengths deep in tissue. Our results suggest that millions of point-scanning measurements could be substituted with tens to hundreds of DEEP measurements with no compromise in image quality.

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