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New three-photon miniature microscopes open the study of neuronal networks to those deep in the brains of behaving animals.

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Fig. 1: Single-photon and multiphoton miniature microscopy in freely behaving animals.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (B.F.G., CRSII5-173721 and 315230189251), ETH project funding (B.F.G., ETH-20 19-01), the Human Frontiers Science Program (RGY0072/2019) and funding from the Dr. Wilhelm Hurka Foundation Zurich. We further thank A. Hoffmann for discussions and for helping to acquire the 1P FOV images.

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    Jérôme A. Lecoq

  2. Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Roman Boehringer & Benjamin F. Grewe

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Lecoq, J.A., Boehringer, R. & Grewe, B.F. Deep brain imaging on the move. Nat Methods 20, 495–496 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-023-01808-z

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