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OPTICS LETTERS
卷 47, 期 5, 页码 1121-1124出版社
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OL.450648
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- National Institutes of Health [R01NS078168, R01NS101353]
- Pennsylvania State University (College of Engineering Multidisciplinary Grant, Grace Woodward grant) (SRK)
This article proposes a transparent ultrasound transducer (TUT) based on lithium niobate as a cranial window for thinned mouse skull, which can be used for optical resolution photoacoustic microscopy (OR-PAM) imaging and other applications.
Optical resolution photoacoustic microscopy (OR-PAM) can map the cerebral vasculature at capillary-level resolution. However, the OR-PAM setup's bulky imaging head makes awake mouse brain imaging challenging and inhibits its integration with other optical neuroimaging modalities. Moreover, the glass cranial windows used for optical microscopy are unsuitable for OR-PAM due to the acoustic impedance mismatch between the glass plate and the tissue. To overcome these challenges, we propose a lithium niobate based transparent ultrasound transducer (TUT) as a cranial window on a thinned mouse skull. The TUT cranial window simplifies the imaging head considerably due to its dual functionality as an optical window and ultrasound transducer. The window remains stable for six weeks, with no noticeable inflammation and minimal bone regrowth. The TUT window's potential is demonstrated by imaging the awake mouse cerebral vasculature using OR-PAM, intrinsic optical signal imaging, and two-photon microscopy. The TUT cranial window can potentially also be used for ultrasound stimulation and simultaneous multimodal imaging of the awake mouse brain. (C) 2022 Optica Publishing Group
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