Optical recording of suprathreshold neural activity with single-cell and single-spike resolution.

نویسندگان

  • Gayathri Nattar Ranganathan
  • Helmut J Koester
چکیده

Signaling of information in the vertebrate central nervous system is often carried by populations of neurons rather than individual neurons. Also propagation of suprathreshold spiking activity involves populations of neurons. Empirical studies addressing cortical function directly thus require recordings from populations of neurons with high resolution. Here we describe an optical method and a deconvolution algorithm to record neural activity from up to 100 neurons with single-cell and single-spike resolution. This method relies on detection of the transient increases in intracellular somatic calcium concentration associated with suprathreshold electrical spikes (action potentials) in cortical neurons. High temporal resolution of the optical recordings is achieved by a fast random-access scanning technique using acousto-optical deflectors (AODs). Two-photon excitation of the calcium-sensitive dye results in high spatial resolution in opaque brain tissue. Reconstruction of spikes from the fluorescence calcium recordings is achieved by a maximum-likelihood method. Simultaneous electrophysiological and optical recordings indicate that our method reliably detects spikes (>97% spike detection efficiency), has a low rate of false positive spike detection (< 0.003 spikes/sec), and a high temporal precision (about 3 msec). This optical method of spike detection can be used to record neural activity in vitro and in anesthetized animals in vivo.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE

دوره 67  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2012