Hillmann Lab

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ERC Consolidator Grant · 2024

Functional Microscopy of Individual Neurons in the Living Human Retina

Subcellular, functional imaging of neurons in living humans could revolutionize biomedical research and prove valuable in the clinic. With optical techniques, subcellular resolution is achievable and although the eye provides optical access to the retinal neurons, the size of the eye’s pupil currently prevents subcellular resolution in all optical imaging techniques of the living retina. In this project, I will develop a novel tomographic microscopy technique and use it to demonstrate at least a 4-times better resolution for retinal tomography compared to the state-of-the-art. For the first time, a resolution below 1 μm will be achieved for imaging of the living human retina. For this, I…

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