Summary

As light travels deeper into the brain, it scatters. Three-photon microscopy, the current state of the art, reduces the resulting background fluorescence and can, in principle, image much deeper than earlier techniques—but to do that, it uses average laser power limits that cause overheating and damage living tissue. Instead of accepting that trade-off, a Rockefeller team has now redesigned the entire imaging system from the ground up.

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