The Neurophotonics Special Section on Imaging Neuroimmune, Neuroglial, and Neurovascular Interfaces is published in Neurophotonics Volume 9. The articles are collected here.

Special Section Guest Editorial: Imaging Neuroimmune, Neuroglial, and Neurovascular Interfaces

Andy Y. Shih, Vanessa Coelho-Santos, and Kıvılcım Kılıç

PART ONE (Volume 9, Issue 2):

Advances in studying whole mouse brain vasculature using high-resolution 3D light microscopy imaging

Hannah C. Bennett and Yongsoo Kim

Overview of extracellular vesicle characterization techniques and introduction to combined reflectance and fluorescence confocal microscopy to distinguish extracellular vesicle subpopulations

Canan Bagci, Melike Sever Bahcekapili, Nevin Belder, Adam P. S. Bennett, Sefik Evren Erdener, and Turgay Dalkara

Contractile apparatus in CNS capillary pericytes

Sefik E. Erdener, Gülce Küreli, and Turgay Dalkara

Behavioral and physiological monitoring for awake neurovascular coupling experiments: a how-to guide

Qingguang Zhang, Kevin L. Turner, Kyle W. Gheres, Md Shakhawat Hossain, and Patrick J. Drew

Blood vessel tail artifacts suppression in optical coherence tomography angiography

Yuntao Li and Jianbo Tang

Photonics tools begin to clarify astrocyte calcium transients

Kelsea A. Gorzo and Grant R. Gordon

Continuous blood flow visualization with laser speckle contrast imaging during neurovascular surgery

David R. Miller, Ramsey Ashour, Colin T. Sullender, and Andrew K. Dunn

Toolbox for studying neurovascular coupling in vivo, with a focus on vascular activity and calcium dynamics in astrocytes

Cam Ha T. Tran

Depth-targeted intracortical microstroke by two-photon photothrombosis in rodent brain

Masahiro Fukuda, Takayoshi Matsumara, Toshio Suda,and Hajime Hirase

Techniques for visualizing fibroblast-vessel interactions in the developing and adult CNS

Hannah Jones, Kelsey Abrams, and Julie Siegenthaler

PART TWO (Volume 9, Issue 3):

Characterization of red fluorescent reporters for dual-color in vivo three-photon microscopy

Michael A. Thornton, Gregory L. Futia, Michael E. Stockton, Baris N. Ozbay, Karl Kilborn, Diego Restrepo, Emily A. Gibson, and Ethan G. Hughes

Assaying activity-dependent arteriole and capillary responses in brain slices

Danica Bojovic, Teresa L. Stackhouse, and Anusha Mishra

Immune–vascular mural cell interactions: consequences for immune cell trafficking, cerebral blood flow, and the blood–brain barrier

Anna Barkaway, David Attwell, and Nils Korte

Dynamic infrared imaging of cerebrospinal fluid tracer influx into the brain

Samantha A. Keil, Molly Braun, Ryan O’Boyle, Mathew Sevao, Taylor Pedersen, Sanjana Agarwal, Deidre Jansson, and Jeffrey J. Iliff

Unbiased analysis of mouse brain endothelial networks from two- or three-dimensional fluorescence images

Moises Freitas-Andrade, Cesar H. Comin, Matheus Viana da Silva, Luciano da F. Costa, and Baptiste Lacoste

Antibody-based in vivo leukocyte label for two-photon brain imaging in mice

Lila D. Faulhaber, Olivia D’Costa, Andy Y. Shih, and Juliane Gust

Reinforced thinned-skull window for repeated imaging of the neonatal mouse brain

Vanessa Coelho-Santos, Taryn Tieu, and Andy Y. Shih

Ex vivo capillary-parenchymal arteriole approach to study brain pericyte physiology

Danielle A. Jeffrey, Jackson T. Fontaine, and Fabrice Dabertrand

Versatile software and hardware combo enabling photon counting acquisition and real-time display for multiplexing, 2D and continuous 3D two-photon imaging applications

Hagai Har-Gil, Lior Golgher, David Kain, and Pablo Blinder

Cranial window for longitudinal and multimodal imaging of the whole mouse cortex

Marine Tournissac, Davide Boido, Manon Omnès, Yannick Goulam-Houssen, Luisa Ciobanu, and Serge Charpak