High-resolution intravital imaging with enhanced contrast up to 120 µm depth in lymph nodes of adult mice is achieved by spatially modulating the excitation pattern of a multi-focal two-photon microscope. In 100 µm depth we measured resolutions of 487 nm (lateral) and 551 nm (axial), thus circumventing scattering and diffraction limits.
Cseresnyes, Z., Oehme, L., Andresen, V., Sporbert, A., Hauser, A. E., Niesner, R. Highly Resolved Intravital Striped-illumination Microscopy of Germinal Centers. J. Vis. Exp. (86), e51135, doi:10.3791/51135 (2014).