Multiphoton microscopy (MPM) is the go-to technique for high spatial resolution, deep imaging in scattering biological tissue. The performance of MPM, e.g., imaging speed and volume, depends on the characteristics of the excitation source and is fundamentally limited by the signal photon budget. We developed an adaptive excitation source (AES). By feeding the structural information of the sample to the source, the AES produces on-demand pulses only in the regions of interest (ROIs). The AES therefore transforms a conventional multiphoton microscope into a “random-access” microscope that only excites the ROIs and performs the most photon efficient excitation for functional imaging.
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