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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2014
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Tong Zhang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mark Schnitzer, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jerome Anthony-Jean Lecoq, Menlo, CA (US);
Joan Savall, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Hyun Kim, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Oleg Rumyantsev, Stanford, CA (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US);
Abstract
A two-photon imaging system capable of imaging of an image region in real time is presented. The imaging system comprises a source of excitation light that provides the excitation light as a plurality of laser beamlets. The plurality of laser beamlets is collectively scanned by a single-axis scanner along a first direction in the focal plane of the image region and oriented such that neither the rows nor columns are aligned with the first direction. As a result, each laser beamlet scans a different sub-region of the image region and the plurality of sub-regions are simultaneously scanned. As a result, the entirety of the image region is scanned in the same amount of time required to scan one image sub-region.