Imaging Single–Cell Blood Flow in the Smallest to Largest Vessels in the Living Retina

Author:

Joseph AbyORCID,Guevara–Torres Andrés,Schallek Jesse B.ORCID

Abstract

Impact StatementUsing a specialized camera that corrects for eye blur, millions of single blood cells are imaged and their speed measured, as they travel through the largest-to-smallest vessels of the retina.AbstractTissue light scatter limits the visualization of the microvascular network deep inside the living mammal. The transparency of the mammalian eye provides a noninvasive view of the microvessels of the retina, a part of the central nervous system. Despite its clarity, imperfections in the optics of the eye blur microscopic retinal capillaries, and single blood cells flowing within. This limits early evaluation of microvascular diseases that originate in capillaries. To break this barrier, we use adaptive optics to noninvasively measure single–cell blood flow, in one of the most widely used research animals: the C57BL/6J mouse. Flow ranged four orders of magnitude (0.0002–1.55 µL min−1) across the full spectrum of retinal vessel diameters (3.2–45.8 µm), without requiring surgery or contrast dye. Here we describe the data collection approach using adaptive optics and provide an analysis pipeline that can measure millions of blood cell speeds automatically.

Publisher

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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