Multiorientation mapping of white matter fiber microstructures in whole mouse brains using serial optical coherence tomography

Joël Lefebvre; Alexia Pragassam; Julien Reynaud; Frans Irgolitsch; Frédéric Lesage

doi:10.1117/12.3002959

12 March 2024 Multiorientation mapping of white matter fiber microstructures in whole mouse brains using serial optical coherence tomography

Joël Lefebvre, Alexia Pragassam, Julien Reynaud, Frans Irgolitsch, Frédéric Lesage

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Proceedings Volume 12828, Neural Imaging and Sensing 2024; 1282807 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3002959
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2024, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Previous studies have shown that the optical coherence tomography (OCT) signal in white matter (WM) is affected by the WM fiber bundles orientation with respect to the microscope’s optical axis. In this paper, we aim to exploit this contrast mechanism to generate a multi-orientation representation of WM microstructure in whole mouse brains. To achieve this, a serial blockface histology set-up has been developed combined with spectral domain OCT equipped with a long-range 10x magnification objective, achieving a near isotropic resolution of 3 micron laterally (xy) and 3.5 micron axially (z). With this imaging system, a map of WM structures can be generated for an entire agarose embedded mouse brain. To precisely control the mouse brain orientation within the agarose, we designed a multi-part 3D printed mold, which allows us to choose the vibratome’s slicing plane (e.g., coronal, axial, sagittal, etc.). After the serial OCT acquisition, every slice is reconstructed as 2D images and stacked to obtain a 2.5D volume. The reconstruction process uses a nextflow computational pipeline, allowing us to parallelize the calculations. Our proposed imaging method emphasizes different WM structures according to their orientation, which we illustrated in the mouse’s anterior commissure olfactory limb. This structure is very bright when observed in axial slices, whereas it has a darker appearance in the coronal slices. Using this method, we plan to acquire whole mouse brains oriented in multiple directions and to create a multi-orientation mouse brain template, which we believe will prove useful to get a better understanding of complex WM microstructure geometries, such as fiber crossing areas.

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Joël Lefebvre, Alexia Pragassam, Julien Reynaud, Frans Irgolitsch, and Frédéric Lesage "Multiorientation mapping of white matter fiber microstructures in whole mouse brains using serial optical coherence tomography", Proc. SPIE 12828, Neural Imaging and Sensing 2024, 1282807 (12 March 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3002959

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