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Kerr, J. N. D., and Denk, W. (2008). Imaging in vivo: watching the brain in action. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 9, 195-205.

Kuhn, B., Denk, W., and Bruno, R. M. (2008). In vivo two-photon voltage-sensitive dye imaging reveals top-down control of cortical layers 1 and 2 during wakefulness. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105, 7588-7593.

Sawinski, J., and Denk, W. (2007). Miniature random-access fiber scanner for in vivo multiphoton imaging. Journal of Applied Physics 102, -.

Hausselt, S. E., Euler, T., Detwiler, P. B., and Denk, W. (2007). A dendrite-autonomous mechanism for direction selectivity in retinal starburst amacrine cells. Plos Biology 5, 1474-1493.

Hennig, P., and Denk, W. (2007). Point-spread functions for backscattered imaging in the scanning electron microscope. Journal of Applied Physics 102, 123101-01 – 123101-08

Theer, P., and Denk, W. (2006). On the fundamental imaging-depth limit in two-photon microscopy. Journal of the Optical Society of America a-Optics Image Science and Vision 23, 3139-3149.

Stettler, D. D., Yamahachi, H., Li, W., Denk, W., and Gilbert, C. D. (2006). Axons and synaptic boutons are highly dynamic in adult visual cortex. Neuron 49, 877-887.

Lauterbach, M. A., Ruckel, M., and Denk, W. (2006). Light-efficient, quantum-limited interferometric wavefront estimation by virtual mode sensing. Optics Express 14, 3700-3714.

Komai, S., Licznerski, P., Cetin, A., Waters, J., Denk, W., Brecht, M., and Osten, P. (2006). Postsynaptic excitability is necessary for strengthening of cortical sensory responses during experience-dependent development. Nature Neuroscience 9, 1125-1133.

Feierbach, B., Piccinotti, S., Bisher, M., Denk, W., and Enquist, L. W. (2006). Alpha-herpesvirus infection induces the formation of nuclear actin filaments. Plos Pathogens 2, 763-776.

Briggman, K. L., and Denk, W. (2006). Towards neural circuit reconstruction with volume electron microscopy techniques. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 16, 562-570.

Rueckel, M., Mack-Bucher, J. A., and Denk, W. (2006). Adaptive wavefront correction in two-photon microscopy using coherence-gated wavefront sensing. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103, 17137-17142.

Helmchen, F., and Denk, W. (2005). Deep tissue two-photon microscopy. Nature Methods 2, 932-940.

Dittgen, T., Nimmerjahn, A., Komai, S., Licznerski, P., Waters, J., Margrie, T. W., Helmchen, F., Denk, W., Brecht, M., and Osten, P. (2004). Lentivirus-based genetic manipulations of cortical neurons and their optical and electrophysiological monitoring in vivo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 101, 18206-18211.

Wachowiak, M., Denk, W., and Friedrich, R. W. (2004). Functional organization of sensory input to the olfactory bulb glomerulus analyzed by two-photon calcium imaging. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101, 9097-9102.

Kuhn, B., Fromherz, P., and Denk, W. (2004). High sensitivity of stark-shift voltage-sensing dyes by one- or two-photon excitation near the red spectral edge. Biophysical Journal 87, 631-639.

Haubensak, W., Attardo, A., Denk, W., and Huttner, W. B. (2004). Neurons arise in the basal neuroepithelium of the early mammalian telencephalon: A major site of neurogenesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101, 3196-3201.

Hasan, M. T., Friedrich, R. W., Euler, T., Larkum, M. E., Giese, G., Both, M., Duebel, J., Waters, J., Bujard, H., Griesbeck, O., et al. (2004). Functional fluorescent Ca2+ indicator proteins in transgenic mice under TET control. Plos Biology 2, 763-775.

Haag, J., Denk, W., and Borst, A. (2004). Fly motion vision is based on Reichardt detectors regardless of the signal-to-noise ratio. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101, 16333-16338.

Feierabend, M., Ruckel, M., and Denk, W. (2004). Coherence-gated wave-front sensing in strongly scattering samples. Optics Letters 29, 2255-2257.

Dittgen, T., Nimmerjahn, A., Komai, S., Licznerski, P., Waters, J., Margrie, T. W., Helmchen, F., Denk, W., Brecht, M., and Osten, P. (2004). Lentivirus-based genetic manipulations of cortical neurons and their optical and electrophysiological monitoring in vivo. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101, 18206-18211.

Denk, W., and Horstmann, H. (2004). Serial block-face scanning electron microscopy to reconstruct three-dimensional tissue nanostructure. Plos Biology 2, 1900-1909.

Theer, P., Hasan, M. T., and Denk, W. (2003). Two-photon imaging to a depth of 1000 mu m in living brains by use of a Ti : Al2O3 regenerative amplifier. Optics Letters 28, 1022-1024.

Margrie, T. W., Meyer, A. H., Caputi, A., Monyer, H., Hasan, M. T., Schaefer, A. T., Denk, W., and Brecht, M. (2003). Targeted whole-cell recordings in the mammalian brain in vivo. Neuron 39, 911-918.

Helmchen, F., Tank, D. W., and Denk, W. (2002). Enhanced two-photon excitation through optical fiber by single-mode propagation in a large core. Applied Optics 41, 2930-2934.

Euler, T., Detwiler, P. B., and Denk, W. (2002). Directionally selective calcium signals in dendrites of starburst amacrine cells. Nature 418, 845-852.

Wang, J. W., Denk, W., Flores, J., and Gelperin, A. (2001). Initiation and propagation of calcium-dependent action potentials in a coupled network of olfactory interneurons. Journal of Neurophysiology 85, 977-985.

Helmchen, F., Fee, M. S., Tank, D. W., and Denk, W. (2001). A miniature head-mounted two-photon microscope: High-resolution brain imaging in freely moving animals. Neuron 31, 903-912.

Delaney, K., Davison, I., and Denk, W. (2001). Odour-evoked [Ca2+] transients in mitral cell dendrites of frog olfactory glomeruli. European Journal of Neuroscience 13, 1658-1672.

Wang, S. S. H., Denk, W., and Hausser, M. (2000). Coincidence detection in single dendritic spines mediated by calcium release. Nature Neuroscience 3, 1266-1273.

Cox, C. L., Denk, W., Tank, D. W., and Svoboda, K. (2000). Action potentials reliably invade axonal arbors of rat neocortical neurons. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 97, 9724-9728.

Reviews Briggman, K. L., and Denk, W. (2006). Towards neural circuit reconstruction with volume electron microscopy techniques. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 16, 562-570.

Helmchen, F., and Denk, W. (2005). Deep tissue two-photon microscopy. Nature Methods 2, 932-940.

Helmchen, F., and Denk, W. (2002). New developments in multiphoton microscopy. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 12, 593-601.

Euler, T., and Denk, W. (2001). Dendritic processing. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 11, 415-422.