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The recent BRAIN initiative in the USA, and the Human Brain Project in Europe have highlighted how little we know about the way that the brain works. These initiatives have identified that technologies are urgently needed to better probe the working brain, across all levels from single neurons to entire behaving organisms. Optical tools and techniques have become central to neuroscience and biomedical research, spanning from optogenetics and fluorescent proteins, to in-vivo microscopy and approaches for human brain imaging. This conference will bring together researchers working in all aspects of optics in the brain and will serve as a forum for discussion of existing and emerging techniques as well as future directions that could be envisaged to shed new light on the healthy and diseased brain.

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Topics Categories 1. Optics in the Human brain · Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) · Functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) · Diffuse Correlation spectroscopy (DCS) · Neurophotonic biopsy · Photodynamic therapy · Intrasurgical optical imaging · Fast Optical Signals · Clinical translation 2. Structural and multiscale brain imaging · OCT for structural imaging in the CNS · 2nd- and 3rd- harmonic structural imaging · Deep phase contrast for neuroanatomy · Single particle tracking for synapse investigation · Superresolution imaging in the CNS · Whole brain neuro-anatomy with light sheet microscopy · Whole brain neuro-anatomy with 3. Functional brain microscopy techniques · In vivo Multi-photon functional imaging · Deep Multi-photon imaging · High-speed / multiplexing functional microscopy techniques · Functional light-sheet imaging · Light-field imaging · Temporal focusing microscopy · Wearable / implantable microscopes · Adaptive optics approaches to imaging 4. Functional brain macroscopy and hybrid techniques · Wide-field VSD / Calcium imaging · Speckle flow imaging · Optical intrinsic signal imaging · Opto/Photoacoustic imaging of the CNS · Functional OCT in the CNS · Implantable devices and probes for imaging and recording 5. Optogenetics and optical modulation tools and techniques · Multispectral and hybrid optogenetic approaches · Adaptive optics for beam shaping · Tools for targeted optogenetic light delivery · Optical dissection of brain function with caged compounds · Infrared Neural Stimulation, · Photo-coagulation and targeted photodamage · Laser axotomy in vivo · Optical Cochlear prostheses · Single Synapse stimulation · Interconnections between the neurobiological and the opto/electrical devices · Towards optogenetics in humans 6. Novel contrast and genetic approaches for brain imaging and modulation · Fluorescent proteins to image structure · Fluorescent proteins to image function / metabolism · Optogenetic tools for photoactivation and multiplexing · Raman-based contrast for brain imaging · Voltage sensitive dyes · Vascular tracers · Phosphorescent probes · Cerenkov imaging · Multi-modality contrast · Probes for CNS disease
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  • Conference Date

    Apr 12

    2015

    to

    Apr 15

    2015

  • Apr 15 2015

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