Optics and the Brain
- Optics in the Human Central Nervous System and Peripheral Nerves
- Functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)
- Diffuse optical spectroscopy and tomography (DOS/DOT)
- Diffuse Correlation Spectroscopy (DCS)
- Wearable systems
- Brain computer interfaces (BCI)
- Infrasurgical brain optical imaging
- Fiber-optic probes, spectroscopy and edoscopic imaging
- Optical modulation of the human central nervous system
- Retinal neuroscience
- Speckle contrast
- Vascular and metabolic modeling
- Clinical applications
- Coherence tomography, non-invasive techniques, hyperspectral imaging
- Rethinking Scan Patterns and Shaping Light
- Light sheet microscopy
- Wavefront engineering
- Adaptive optics
- Structured illumination
- Temporal focusing
- Non-gaussian beam shaping
- Holography
- Combining light sheet micro with microlaser spectro
- Structural and Super-Resolution Techniques
- Resolution improvement techniques
- Fluorophores design and optimism
- Use of super-resolution
- Particle tracking
- Molecular and biophysical processes
- Analyzing Circuitry, Network Function and Information Processing
- Model systems for network studies
- Hybrid theoretical-experimental approaches to network analysis
- Models of network inference
- Imaging strategies optimized for network analysis
- Deciphering functions from activity data
- Multiscale imaging of brain activity
- Functional microscopy
- Optogenetics, Genetic Encoding and Novel Probes
- Optode and electrode hardware for excitation and/or recording
- Use of miniatrue microscopes with optogenetics
- Genetically encoded calcium and voltage inidcators
- Novel forms of functional contrast
- New genetic strategies for optogenetics
- Modeling and overcoming scatter in optogenetics
- Challenges of scaling up optogenetics to non-human primates
- Scattering, Clearing and Wavefront Engineering
- Advances in light sheet microscopy
- Novel techniques for in-vitro and in-vitro whole-brain imaging and actuation
- Zebrafish, Drosophila and similar small organisms
- Clearing techniques and structural imaging, animal to human
- Optical data management and analysis strategies
- Adaptive optics strategies
- Brain Physiology and Disease
- Application of optical spectroscopy and imaging systems to the study of the brain in both health and disease (i.e., Alzheimer's stroke, epilepsy, etc.)
- Models of brain diseases and optical tools
- Photothrombosis
- Optical therapeutics
- Photodynamic therapy
- Neuromodulation strategies
- Big Data Tools (Collection, Management, Reduction, Analysis)
- Rapid imaging strategies
- Serial slices imaging
- Large field-of-view and space-bandwidth microscopes
- Compression strategies
- Data management tools
- Machine learning
- Software tools and date formats
- ML data augmentation; high density datasets
- Optical Hybrids
- Photoacoustics / optoacoustics
- Acousto-optic approaches
- Acoustic modulation of neural activity
- Combined optical / PET / CT / MRI
- Combined electrical/optical
- Integrated photo acoustic, ultrasound and angiographic tomography (PAUSAT) and photothermal infrared microscopy