Not only can this be used to look at nerve cells, but also endothelium cells of the blood brain barrier and the collagen in cells from the jugular veins and jugular valves.
"Scientists and clinicians will be able to superimpose multiple data sets in three dimensions using automated techniques and then conduct detailed analysis of the data in a far improved way from the two dimensional microscopy that is currently available," said Dr Adrian Meedeniya, manager of Griffith's Imaging and Image Analysis Facility.