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Xia F, Rimoli CV, Akemann W, Ventalon C, Bourdieu L, Gigan S, de Aguiar HB. Neurophotonics beyond the surface: unmasking the brain's complexity exploiting optical scattering. NEUROPHOTONICS 2024; 11:S11510. [PMID: 38617592 PMCID: PMC11014413 DOI: 10.1117/1.nph.11.s1.s11510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2023] [Revised: 03/07/2024] [Accepted: 03/14/2024] [Indexed: 04/16/2024]
Abstract
The intricate nature of the brain necessitates the application of advanced probing techniques to comprehensively study and understand its working mechanisms. Neurophotonics offers minimally invasive methods to probe the brain using optics at cellular and even molecular levels. However, multiple challenges persist, especially concerning imaging depth, field of view, speed, and biocompatibility. A major hindrance to solving these challenges in optics is the scattering nature of the brain. This perspective highlights the potential of complex media optics, a specialized area of study focused on light propagation in materials with intricate heterogeneous optical properties, in advancing and improving neuronal readouts for structural imaging and optical recordings of neuronal activity. Key strategies include wavefront shaping techniques and computational imaging and sensing techniques that exploit scattering properties for enhanced performance. We discuss the potential merger of the two fields as well as potential challenges and perspectives toward longer term in vivo applications.
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Affiliation(s)
- Fei Xia
- Sorbonne Université, Collège de France, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS-Université PSL, CNRS, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Collège de France, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS-Université PSL, CNRS, Paris, France
- Université PSL, Institut de Biologie de l’ENS, École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, Paris, France
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- Université PSL, Institut de Biologie de l’ENS, École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, Paris, France
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- Université PSL, Institut de Biologie de l’ENS, École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, Paris, France
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- Université PSL, Institut de Biologie de l’ENS, École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Collège de France, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS-Université PSL, CNRS, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Collège de France, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS-Université PSL, CNRS, Paris, France
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Wu T, Zhang Y, Blochet B, Arjmand P, Berto P, Guillon M. Single-shot digital optical fluorescence phase conjugation through forward multiple-scattering samples. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2024; 10:eadi1120. [PMID: 38241370 PMCID: PMC10798569 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adi1120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2023] [Accepted: 12/21/2023] [Indexed: 01/21/2024]
Abstract
Aberrations and multiple scattering in biological tissues critically distort light beams into highly complex speckle patterns. In this regard, digital optical phase conjugation (DOPC) is a promising technique enabling in-depth focusing. However, DOPC becomes challenging when using fluorescent guide stars for four main reasons: the low photon budget available, the large spectral bandwidth of the fluorescent signal, the Stokes shift between the emission and the excitation wavelength, and the absence of reference beam preventing holographic measurement. Here, we demonstrate the possibility to focus a laser beam through multiple-scattering samples by measuring speckle fields in a single acquisition step with a reference-free, high-resolution wavefront sensor. By taking advantage of the large spectral bandwidth of forward multiply scattering samples, digital fluorescence phase conjugation is achieved to focus a laser beam at the excitation wavelength while measuring the broadband speckle field arising from a micrometer-sized fluorescent bead.
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- Tengfei Wu
- Saints-Pères Paris Institute for the Neurosciences, CNRS UMR 8003, Université Paris Cité, 45 rue des Saints-Pères, Paris 75006, France
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- Saints-Pères Paris Institute for the Neurosciences, CNRS UMR 8003, Université Paris Cité, 45 rue des Saints-Pères, Paris 75006, France
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- Saints-Pères Paris Institute for the Neurosciences, CNRS UMR 8003, Université Paris Cité, 45 rue des Saints-Pères, Paris 75006, France
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- Saints-Pères Paris Institute for the Neurosciences, CNRS UMR 8003, Université Paris Cité, 45 rue des Saints-Pères, Paris 75006, France
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- Saints-Pères Paris Institute for the Neurosciences, CNRS UMR 8003, Université Paris Cité, 45 rue des Saints-Pères, Paris 75006, France
- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, INSERM, Institut de la Vision, 17 Rue Moreau, Paris 75012, France
- Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Paris 75007, France
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- Saints-Pères Paris Institute for the Neurosciences, CNRS UMR 8003, Université Paris Cité, 45 rue des Saints-Pères, Paris 75006, France
- Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Paris 75007, France
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Zhao S, Rauer B, Valzania L, Dong J, Liu R, Li F, Gigan S, de Aguiar HB. Single-pixel transmission matrix recovery via two-photon fluorescence. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2024; 10:eadi3442. [PMID: 38232161 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adi3442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2023] [Accepted: 12/19/2023] [Indexed: 01/19/2024]
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Imaging at depth in opaque materials has long been a challenge. Recently, wavefront shaping has enabled notable advance for deep imaging. Nevertheless, most noninvasive wavefront-shaping methods require cameras, lack the sensitivity for deep imaging under weak optical signals, or can only focus on a single "guidestar." Here, we retrieve the transmission matrix (TM) noninvasively using two-photon fluorescence exploiting a single-pixel detection combined with a computational framework, allowing to achieve single-target focus on multiple guidestars spread beyond the memory effect range. In addition, if we assume that memory effect correlations exist in the TM, we are able to substantially reduce the number of measurements needed.
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- Shupeng Zhao
- Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS-Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Collège de France. 24 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris, France
- Shaanxi Province Key Laboratory for Quantum Information and Quantum Optoelectronic Devices, School of Physics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China
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- Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS-Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Collège de France. 24 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS-Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Collège de France. 24 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris, France
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- Biomedical Imaging Group, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne 1015, Switzerland
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- Shaanxi Province Key Laboratory for Quantum Information and Quantum Optoelectronic Devices, School of Physics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China
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- Shaanxi Province Key Laboratory for Quantum Information and Quantum Optoelectronic Devices, School of Physics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China
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- Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS-Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Collège de France. 24 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS-Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Collège de France. 24 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris, France
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Blochet B, Akemann W, Gigan S, Bourdieu L. Fast wavefront shaping for two-photon brain imaging with multipatch correction. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2305593120. [PMID: 38100413 PMCID: PMC10743372 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2305593120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2023] [Accepted: 10/19/2023] [Indexed: 12/17/2023] Open
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Nonlinear fluorescence microscopy promotes in-vivo optical imaging of cellular structure at diffraction-limited resolution deep inside scattering biological tissues. Active compensation of tissue-induced aberrations and light scattering through adaptive wavefront correction further extends the accessible depth by restoring high resolution at large depth. However, those corrections are only valid over a very limited field of view within the angular memory effect. To overcome this limitation, we introduce an acousto-optic light modulation technique for fluorescence imaging with simultaneous wavefront correction at pixel scan speed. Biaxial wavefront corrections are first learned by adaptive optimization at multiple locations in the image field. During image acquisition, the learned corrections are then switched on the fly according to the position of the excitation focus during the raster scan. The proposed microscope is applied to in vivo transcranial neuron imaging and demonstrates multi-patch correction of thinned skull-induced aberrations and scattering at 40-kHz data acquisition speed.
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Affiliation(s)
- Baptiste Blochet
- Institut de Biologie de l’École Normale Supérieure, École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, Paris75005, France
- Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, École Normale Supérieure-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Collège de France, Paris75005, France
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- Institut de Biologie de l’École Normale Supérieure, École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, Paris75005, France
- Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, École Normale Supérieure-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Collège de France, Paris75005, France
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- Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, École Normale Supérieure-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Collège de France, Paris75005, France
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- Institut de Biologie de l’École Normale Supérieure, École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, Paris75005, France
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Wang X, Zhao W, Zhai A, Wang D. Efficiently scanning a focus behind scattering media beyond memory effect by wavefront tilting and re-optimization. OPTICS EXPRESS 2023; 31:32287-32297. [PMID: 37859035 DOI: 10.1364/oe.501692] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2023] [Accepted: 09/01/2023] [Indexed: 10/21/2023]
Abstract
One of the main challenges in the wavefront shaping technique is to enable controllable light propagation through scattering media. However, the scanning of the focus generated by wavefront shaping is limited to a small range determined by the optical memory effect (ME). Here, we propose and demonstrate efficiently scanning a focus behind scattering media beyond the ME region using the wavefront tilting and re-optimization (WFT&RO) method. After scanning an initial focus to a desired position by wavefront tilting, our approach utilizes the scanned focus at a new position as the "guide star" to do wavefront re-optimization, which can not only enhance the intensity of the focus to the value before scanning but also accelerate the optimization speed. Repeat such a process, we can theoretically fast scan the focus to any position beyond the ME region while maintaining a relatively uniform intensity. We experimentally demonstrate the power of the method by scanning a focus with uniform intensity values through an optical diffuser within a range that is at least 5 folds larger than the ME region. Additionally, for the case of two cascaded optical diffusers, the scanning range achieved is at least 7 folds larger than the ME region. Our method holds promising implications for applications such as imaging through media, where the ability to control light through scattering media is crucial.
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