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12-15 August 2018
MPI-CBG
Europe/Berlin timezone

The mesoSPIM initiative – open-source light-sheet microscopes for imaging in cleared tissue

13 Aug 2018, 10:00
15m
MPI-CBG

MPI-CBG

Pfotenhauerstraße 108 01307 Dresden Germany
Short Talk Light sheet fluorescence microscopy Light sheet hardware 1

Speaker

Fabian Voigt (Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich)

Description

Tissue clearing methods have recently seen a renaissance with a wide variety of clearing approaches now available. In neuroscience, the combination of tissue clearing with light-sheet microscopy is ideal to bridge scales from the µm to cm-level, thus providing a link on the mesoscale for detailed 3D anatomical investigations. To optimally image cleared samples, we set out to design a modular light-sheet microscope that combines extremely simple sample mounting and exchange with large field-of-views (FOV) of 2-22 mm to provide users with overview datasets within minutes. Especially for such large FOVs, common light-sheet microscopes suffer from non-uniform axial resolution due to the varying thickness of the light-sheet. To circumvent this problem, we are using tuneable lenses to shift the excitation beam waist through the sample in synchrony with the rolling shutter of the camera. For whole mouse brains, typical datasets are isotropic (5 µm sampling), small (12-16 GB), and generated quickly (7-8 minutes). Together with standardized quick-exchange sample holders, these features allow fast screening of samples for clearing, imaging, and labelling quality and thus speed up data acquisition considerably.
After creating overview datasets, users can zoom in and acquire high-resolution data.
The microscope has been tested and validated in combination with common clearing methods ranging from hydrogel-based techniques such as CLARITY to organic solvent approaches such as iDISCO – by using a modular design of the imaging chambers, switching between different imaging media can be done in less than a minute. Recently, we have realized four such microscopes at various institutions across Switzerland as part of the mesoSPIM initiative (mesospim.org) – a project aimed at creating a community to accelerate the exchange of tissue clearing and mesoscale imaging expertise. Microscope hard- and software are open-source and we welcome suggestions for improvements.

Affiliation Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich
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Primary author

Fabian Voigt (Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich)

Co-authors

Mr Daniel Kirschenbaum (University Hospital Zurich) Stéphane Pagès (Wyss Center Geneva) Ladan Egolf (Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich) Rahel Kästli (Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich) Katy Le Corf (Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich) Karen Haenraets (Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zurich) Noémie Frézel (Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zurich) Fabien Moreillon (University of Applied Sciences, Western Switzerland, Geneva) Evgenia Platonova (Center for Microscopy and Image Analysis, University of Zurich) Asim Iqbal (Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich) Thomas Topilko (ICM - Brain & Spine Institute, Paris) Nicolas Renier (ICM - Brain & Spine Institute, Paris) Hanns Ulrich Zeilhofer (Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zurich) Theofanis Karayannis (Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich) Andreas Frick (Neurocenter Magendie, Bordeaux) Urs Ziegler (Center for Microscopy and Image Analysis, University of Zurich) Laura Batti (Wyss Center Geneva) Anthony Holtmaat (University of Geneva) Christian Lüscher (University of Geneva) Adriano Aguzzi (University Hospital Zurich) Fritjof Helmchen (Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich)

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