[MURG] Lasers take 3D brain scans

[king-yin yan]

From: "Joseph J. Strout" <joe at strout.net>
>They claim a resolution that "approaches" 30 um, or 30000 nm.  That's 
>a factor of 3000 lower than what we probably need, but that's OK -- I 
>still think this is an important step.  Combined with something like 
>NSOM, we could get much closer to the goal.

You seem to be quite confident that current theories of synaptic
plasticity sufficiently describe what really goes on in the brain.
I'm thinking hard about this, maybe you know better. Specifically
do we really know where is ALL the information in the brain?

>Tsai and David Kleinfeld at UCSD.  I don't know these guys well, 
>though I did spend a little time with Kleinfeld a few years ago. 
>Hmm...  Here's David's site:
>
>	http://physics.ucsd.edu/neurophysics/

Thanks, his group's research on capillary blood flow is interesting
and significant, also relevant to fNMR.

>P.S. And you all thought I had gone!  :)

So you still stick to your version of MU. I'm still unsure... but
maybe we can still collaborate (on WBE), I don't see why not.

YKY


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