MagC, magnetic collection of ultrathin sections for volumetric correlative light and electron microscopy

  1. Thomas Templier  Is a corresponding author
  1. University of Zurich, Switzerland

Abstract

The non-destructive collection of ultrathin sections onto silicon wafers for post-embedding staining and volumetric correlative light and electron microscopy traditionally requires exquisite manual skills and is tedious and unreliable. In MagC introduced here, sample blocks are augmented with a magnetic resin enabling remote actuation and collection of hundreds of sections on wafer. MagC allowed the correlative visualization of neuroanatomical tracers within their ultrastructural volumetric electron microscopy context.

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Datasets 1 and 2 are publicly available for online visualization and download at https://neurodata.io/data/templier2019. Code is at https://github.com/templiert/MagC.

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  1. Thomas Templier

    Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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    thomas.templier@epfl.ch
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    Thomas Templier, A patent application has been filed by ETH Zurich (EP3171150A1)..
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Funding

ETH Zurich Foundation ETH Grant (42 15-1)

  • Thomas Templier

Innosuisse-Swiss National Foundation Bridge Proof of Concept (173825)

  • Thomas Templier

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

Ethics

Animal experimentation: Animal experiments were approved by the Veterinary office of Canton Zurich (207/2013).

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© 2019, Templier

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  1. Thomas Templier
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MagC, magnetic collection of ultrathin sections for volumetric correlative light and electron microscopy
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