August 13, 2014

3-D Microscope Method to Look inside Brains



UTAH TEAM INVENTS WAY TO IMAGE BRAINS OF MICE USING A SMALL NEEDLE

A University of Utah team discovered a method for turning a small, $40 needle into a 3-D microscope capable of taking images up to 70 times smaller than the width of a human hair. This new method not only produces high-quality images comparable to expensive microscopes, but may be implanted into the brains of living mice for imaging at the cellular level.