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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2020
Filed:
May. 24, 2017
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US);
Karl A. Deisseroth, Stanford, CA (US);
Li Ye, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jennifer McNab, Stanford, CA (US);
Qiyuan Tian, Stanford, CA (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the present disclosure include a method for visualizing a fiber-like structure in a biological specimen, the method comprising: clearing the biological specimen comprising a fiber-like structure, wherein the fiber-like structure is detectably labeled; illuminating the cleared biological specimen with two light sheets from a first side and a second side to produce an image volume, wherein the second side is opposite to the first side and wherein the image volume comprises a representation of the fiber-like structure; defining a plurality of voxels within the representation of the fiber-like structure; processing each of the plurality of voxels to estimate a plurality of principal fiber-like structure orientations; and defining a starting point on the representation of the fiber-like structure and propagating a plurality of streamlines from the starting point, according to the plurality of principal fiber-like structure.