“…While care must be taken to align the imaging FOV across sessions, there are tools to perform flexible alignment of cellular imaging datasets acquired across sessions. 102,103 Further, image-forming optical methods present an opportunity to perform post-hoc anatomical, histological, or in-situ sequencing analysis of physiologically characterized cells, providing an additional dimension and degree of specificity. [104][105][106] The spatial and temporal resolution, FOV, and tissue depth penetration of imaging-forming techniques depend on the specifics of their optical system (especially on magnification and the numerical aperture, NA), scan technology (line-, raster-, or random-access scanning), and on whether single-photon or multiphoton excitation is used.…”