[MURG] Lasers take 3D brain scans

[Joseph J. Strout]

At 5:43 PM +0200 6/15/03, Mirco Romanato wrote:

>http://www.nature.com/nsu/030609/030609-2.html
>
>This is interesting.

That is interesting.  I've long wondered if lasers could be used to 
ablate one layer of tissue at a time, and combined with some sort of 
proximal probe technique to serially scan a block of tissue.  It 
sounds like these folks have done it.

Of course they seem to be using fluorescence microscopy (confocal, I 
would assume?) rather than a proximal probe technique, so they 
probably can't get the resolution needed.  It's hard to tell from 
just this news blurb, though.  Has anyone seen a research report?

Is anyone in a position to have access to the proceedings from last 
week's conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics?

I see that the researcher named in the news blurb (Jeff Squier) is 
collaborating with some folks here at UCSD.  If we could find their 
names, I could go talk with them myself.  I bet Mark Ellisman's group 
is involved somehow...

I doubt this gets us all the way, but it does seem like a big step 
forward.  Thanks for the pointer, Mirco!

Best,
- Joe

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