Project description
Advanced microscopy tool enables deeper tissue imaging
Multiphoton microscopy is a powerful tool for deep 3D imaging of biological tissues at subcellular resolution which is widely used in fields such as neuroscience, immunology or oncology. However, its effectiveness is often limited by the optical inhomogeneity of biological tissues, which reduces imaging depth and sensitivity. The EIC-funded AOscopy project aims to overcome this limitation by integrating adaptive optics into multiphoton microscopy, thereby enabling deeper imaging with increased contrast and reduced phototoxicity. Researchers will develop a prototype microscope providing significant signal improvement at large depths, which will be tested with end users to validate its applications. The ultimate aim is to enable its wide adoption in biological research through a dedicated start-up company.
Objective
AOscopy aims to establish, quantify and validate the value offer of next-generation multiphoton microscopy using Adaptive Optics (AO), for several applicative use cases in biology, as a key milestone for future exploitation. When targeting deep imaging of biological tissue with subcellular 3D resolution, multiphoton microscopy is the technique of choice, thanks to a unique capability to provide fluorescence images with sub-micron 3D resolution even in scattering media. Due to these features, multiphoton microscopy is widely used in application fields such as e.g. neuroscience, immunology, oncology, dermatology or developmental biology, as a key tool to enable better understanding of both morphological and functional characteristics of biological systems, with a view on improved diagnosis and therapy of multiple diseases. However, it is most of the time severely limited by the intrinsic optical inhomogeneity of biological media, which is responsible for a limitation of imaging depth and sensitivity. While AO has proven its capability to overcome this limitation, no integrated, robust AO-enhanced multiphoton microscope is currently available, as an answer to the need from biologists to routinely and easily image deeper, with enhanced contrast, and reduced phototoxicity. AOscopy will: 1. Develop a prototype of an AO-2-photon microscope, based on our recent innovations, enabling to achieve strong signal enhancement (typ. x5), at large depths in biological media (typ. ≥700µm in the mouse brain), while reducing phototoxicity; 2. Perform market/applicative tests, through the use of the prototype by representative end-users, in order to precise, quantify and validate its value offer in intended environement, for several application fields; 3.Create structure and develop a start-up company 100% dedicated to AO-based microscopy, in order to accelerate its exploitation and adoption.
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- medical and health sciences clinical medicine dermatology
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- medical and health sciences basic medicine immunology
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HORIZON.3.1 - The European Innovation Council (EIC)
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France
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