PMID- 32101736 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210317 LR - 20240328 IS - 2211-1247 (Electronic) VI - 30 IP - 8 DP - 2020 Feb 25 TI - High-Accuracy Detection of Neuronal Ensemble Activity in Two-Photon Functional Microscopy Using Smart Line Scanning. PG - 2567-2580.e6 LID - S2211-1247(20)30149-2 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.01.105 [doi] AB - Two-photon functional imaging using genetically encoded calcium indicators (GECIs) is one prominent tool to map neural activity. Under optimized experimental conditions, GECIs detect single action potentials in individual cells with high accuracy. However, using current approaches, these optimized conditions are never met when imaging large ensembles of neurons. Here, we developed a method that substantially increases the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of population imaging of GECIs by using galvanometric mirrors and fast smart line scan (SLS) trajectories. We validated our approach in anesthetized and awake mice on deep and dense GCaMP6 staining in the mouse barrel cortex during spontaneous and sensory-evoked activity. Compared to raster population imaging, SLS led to increased SNR, higher probability of detecting calcium events, and more precise identification of functional neuronal ensembles. SLS provides a cheap and easily implementable tool for high-accuracy population imaging of neural GCaMP6 signals by using galvanometric-based two-photon microscopes. CI - Copyright (c) 2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Brondi, Marco AU - Brondi M AD - Optical Approaches to Brain Function Laboratory, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy; Neural Coding Laboratory, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova and Rovereto, Italy. FAU - Moroni, Monica AU - Moroni M AD - Neural Coding Laboratory, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova and Rovereto, Italy; Neural Computation Laboratory, Center for Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems @UniTn, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Rovereto, Italy; Center for Mind and Brain Sciences (CIMeC), University of Trento, Trento, Italy. FAU - Vecchia, Dania AU - Vecchia D AD - Optical Approaches to Brain Function Laboratory, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy; Neural Coding Laboratory, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova and Rovereto, Italy. FAU - Molano-Mazon, Manuel AU - Molano-Mazon M AD - Neural Coding Laboratory, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova and Rovereto, Italy; Neural Computation Laboratory, Center for Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems @UniTn, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Rovereto, Italy. FAU - Panzeri, Stefano AU - Panzeri S AD - Neural Coding Laboratory, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova and Rovereto, Italy; Neural Computation Laboratory, Center for Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems @UniTn, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Rovereto, Italy. FAU - Fellin, Tommaso AU - Fellin T AD - Optical Approaches to Brain Function Laboratory, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy; Neural Coding Laboratory, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova and Rovereto, Italy. Electronic address: tommaso.fellin@iit.it. LA - eng GR - U01 NS090576/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/United States GR - U19 NS107464/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - United States TA - Cell Rep JT - Cell reports JID - 101573691 RN - SY7Q814VUP (Calcium) SB - IM MH - Action Potentials/physiology MH - Animals MH - Artifacts MH - Calcium/metabolism MH - *Image Processing, Computer-Assisted MH - Mice MH - *Microscopy, Fluorescence, Multiphoton MH - Motion MH - Neurons/*physiology MH - Neuropil Threads/physiology MH - Wakefulness PMC - PMC7043026 OTO - NOTNLM OT - GCaMP6 OT - barrel cortex OT - neuronal ensembles OT - spatiotemporal neural responses OT - two-photon imaging COIS- Declaration of Interests The authors declare no competing interests. EDAT- 2020/02/27 06:00 MHDA- 2021/03/18 06:00 PMCR- 2020/02/25 CRDT- 2020/02/27 06:00 PHST- 2019/06/28 00:00 [received] PHST- 2020/01/10 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2020/01/29 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2020/02/27 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2020/02/27 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/03/18 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/02/25 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - S2211-1247(20)30149-2 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.01.105 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Cell Rep. 2020 Feb 25;30(8):2567-2580.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.01.105.