Long-Term Optical Access to an Estimated One Million Neurons in the Live Mouse Cortex.

@article{Kim2016LongTermOA,
  title={Long-Term Optical Access to an Estimated One Million Neurons in the Live Mouse Cortex.},
  author={Tony Hyun Kim and Yanping Zhang and J{\'e}r{\^o}me A. Lecoq and Juergen C. Jung and Jane Li and Hongkui Zeng and Cristopher M. Niell and Mark J. Schnitzer},
  journal={Cell reports},
  year={2016},
  volume={17 12},
  pages={
          3385-3394
        }
}
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