Neuro-imaging systems such as MRI scanners are expensive, imagine if you could build one for animal testing from off-the-shelf components for under $10000USD?
13/3/2024
That’s just what a group of scientists led by Te Whai Ao – Dodd-Walls Director, Professor Frédérique Vanholsbeeck of the University of Auckland has achieved.
A report by Dr Vanholsbeeck and her team has just been published in the Gold Open Access journal Neurophotonics outlining the development. The scanner, or mesoscope, is a microscope enabling both a large field of view and at the same time, very high-resolution detail. The low-cost development, which was tested on live rats and mice, could make neuroimaging more accessible to scientists, and advance neuroscience and brain medicine.
For details, see the story published by the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE).
