OCaMP: A New Calcium Indicator for Neural Imaging
Type
Blog Post
Published
Aug. 19, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
...for these lasers, with two-photon excitation at 1030 nm, enabling two-photon imaging without compromising...brightness,
Less signal distortion from photoswitching or photobleaching
Improved signal-to-noise ratio (SNR...various teal, green, yellow, orange, and red fluorophores. The spectra for mOrange2 (scaffold of OCaMP...at 565 nm fits neatly between yellow and red fluorophores, allowing it to be paired with green, yellow...current red and green GECIs aren’t ideal for two-photon imaging with newer lasers in the range of 1000–...non-tunable, their usefulness depends on selecting a fluorophore matched to their excitation wavelength. OCaMP...ratio (Figure 3).
Figure 3: One- and two-photon excitation and emission spectra of OCaMP. 1P excitation...