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24 April 2017 Non-contact measurement of electrical activity in neurons using magnified image spatial spectrum (MISS) microscopy (Conference Presentation)
Hassaan Majeed, Young Jae Lee, Catherine Best-Popescu, Gabriel Popescu, Sung-Soo Jang, Hee Jung Chung
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Proceedings Volume 10074, Quantitative Phase Imaging III; 100740Y (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2256817
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2017, San Francisco, California, United States
Abstract
Traditionally the measurement of electrical activity in neurons has been carried out using microelectrode arrays that require the conducting elements to be in contact with the neuronal network. This method, also referred to as “electrophysiology”, while being excellent in terms of temporal resolution is limited in spatial resolution and is invasive. An optical microscopy method for measuring electrical activity is thus highly desired. Common-path quantitative phase imaging (QPI) systems are good candidates for such investigations as they provide high sensitivity (on the order of nanometers) to the plasma membrane fluctuations that can be linked to electrical activity in a neuronal circuit. In this work we measured electrical activity in a culture of rat cortical neurons using MISS microscopy, a high-speed common-path QPI technique having an axial resolution of around 1 nm in optical path-length, which we introduced at PW BIOS 2016. Specifically, we measured the vesicular cycling (endocytosis and exocytosis) occurring at axon terminals of the neurons due to electrical activity caused by adding a high K+ solution to the cell culture. The axon terminals were localized using a micro-fluidic device that separated them from the rest of the culture. Stacks of images of these terminals were acquired at 826 fps both before and after K+ excitation and the temporal standard deviation maps for the two cases were compared to measure the membrane fluctuations. Concurrently, the existence of vesicular cycling was confirmed through fluorescent tagging and imaging of the vesicles at and around the axon terminals.
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Hassaan Majeed, Young Jae Lee, Catherine Best-Popescu, Gabriel Popescu, Sung-Soo Jang, and Hee Jung Chung "Non-contact measurement of electrical activity in neurons using magnified image spatial spectrum (MISS) microscopy (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10074, Quantitative Phase Imaging III, 100740Y (24 April 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2256817
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KEYWORDS
Neurons
Axons
Microscopy
Phase imaging
Chemical elements
Electrophysiology
Imaging systems
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