Title : 
Label-free imaging of single neuron activities by stimulated Raman scattering
         
        
            Author : 
Delong Zhang ; Hyeon Jeong Lee ; Pei-Yu Shih ; Drenan, Ryan E. ; Ji-Xin Cheng
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Weldon Sch. of Biomed. Eng., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We report the observation of single neuron activities by spectral focusing stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) microscopy. Changes in SRS signal intensity in live neurons correlate to action potentials indicated by fluorescent calcium indicator.
         
        
            Keywords : 
calcium; cellular biophysics; fluorescence; optical focusing; optical microscopy; stimulated Raman scattering; Ca; SRS signal intensity; fluorescent calcium indicator; label-free imaging; single neuron activities; spectral focusing stimulated Raman scattering microscopy; Calcium; Fluorescence; Image resolution; Microscopy; Neurons; Raman scattering;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
San Jose, CA