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. 2011 Feb 28;16(2):026019. doi: 10.1117/1.3549204

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Particle transport in neurites of a hippocampal neuron processor network. The objective is ZEISS Plan-Neofluar 40X/0.75. (a) Phase map of the neuron network. The arrows 1 to 5 show the time-traces of the corresponding points along the dashed line. The whole field of view is 100 μm×75 μm. The objective used is Zeiss Plan-Neofluar 40×/0.75. (b) Optical path length change in time for the five points indicated in (a). Peaks in the point traces correspond to phase shifts associated with (fast) organelle traffic. (c) Laplacian of the selected area in (a). The scale bar is 5 μm. (d) Phase map of the same area as in (c), with some particle traces shown in fine lines. (e) Log–log plot of the MSD for 70 individual particles in (d). Since the particles are confined in the Y direction, the diffusion coefficient for this direction is 2 orders of magnitude smaller than for the other direction. The inset shows the same MSD curves in linear representation and two Y axes. See Video 4 for details.