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1.IntroductionNear-infrared (NIR) multiphoton microscopy has become the preferred tool of choice for microscopic imaging of biological specimens. A number of unique applications, such as biomedical diagnostics, initiation of photochemical reactions, and nanoprocessing within living cells/tissues, can be achieved with NIR illumination.1 In biomedical imaging, the noninvasive and highly penetrative multiphoton microscopy with spatial resolution of has the potential of offering new insight into morphological and developmental studies in vivo. Specifically, multiphoton imaging allows submicrometer three-dimensional (3-D) resolution, millimeter-penetration depth, and minimally invasive nature.2, 3 Drosophila melanogaster is one of the most studied model organisms in biological research, particularly in genetics and developmental biology. Moreover, of known human disease genes have recognizable orthologs in the Drosophila genome, and 50% of fly protein sequences have mammalian analogs.4 Because of the similarity between human and fly proteome, Drosophila is a useful organism for studying mechanisms underlying immunity disorders, diabetes, cancer, and even psychiatry problems, such as drug abuse. In the past, multiphoton microscopy has been successfully applied in the imaging of Caernorhabditis elegans and other important biological systems.5, 6, 7, 8 Specifically, the nonlinear imaging modalities of fluorescence, second harmonic generation (SHG), and third harmonic generation (THG) imaging have been used to study physiological processes in Drosophila.9, 10, 11, 12 However, to the best of our knowledge, the combination of multiphoton auto fluorescence (MAF) and SHG imaging for the structural exploration of Drosophila larval organelles on the whole-body scale has not been demonstrated. In this study, we attempt to achieve label-free imaging of living stage 2 D. melanogaster larva, and to test the feasibility of using this imaging modality for investigating the development and other significant physiological phenomena in Drosophila. 2.Materials and Methods2.1.Sample PreparationStage 2 larvae of the D. melanogaster strain was used in this study. The larvae were anesthetized by exposure to ether fumes for about . The anesthetized second larva was then mounted into a phosphate-buffered saline observation chamber made of coverslips and spacers. After imaging, the anesthetized larva was retrieved from the observation chamber and placed on a grape agar plate with wet nutritional yeast. 2.2.Multiphoton Microscope SetupA femtosecond, titanium-sapphire (Ti–Sa) laser was used as the excitation source. The Ti–Sa laser (Tsunami, Spectra Physics, Mountain View, California) was tuned to with output at the objective. The Ti–Sa laser has a repetition rate and pulse duration. The nonlinear optical imaging system used in this experiment was based on Zeiss Meta LSM510 with a Fluar 40X 1.3NA oil-immersion objective (Zeiss) as the imaging objective. The detection bandwidths of the broadband MAF and narrowband SHG signals are approximately 435–700 and , respectively. 3.Results and DiscussionDepth-resolved, MAF and SHG images of a stage 2 Drosophila larva are shown in Fig. 1 . Because both the muscular architecture and internal organs have evolved at this point of development, studying a stage 2 Drosophila larva is significant. To demonstrate that we can image throughout the thickness of the larva, we conducted multiphoton imaging at different depths in the second larvae stage. Images acquired at the depths of 0, 15, 30, 45, 60, 75, 90, and lateral are shown in Fig. 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 1e, 1f, 1g, 1h. Shown in Fig. 2 is the SHG image of the larva and the MAF image is shown in Fig. 3 . From our results, a number of significant observations can be made. First, the muscular architecture can be imaged by the second harmonic signal. In addition, we found that the trachea system can also be visualized by SHG imaging. Furthermore, MAF can be used to image the outer surface and various internal organs, such as the digestive system, trachea, and intestinal track. Our label-free images are structurally consistent with the known internal architecture of the Drosophila larva.12 In addition, we did not observe visible structural alteration from the femtosecond laser illumination, suggesting that the photodamage caused by multiphoton imaging is minimal. In this work, we demonstrated label-free multiphoton in vivo imaging in a stage 2 Drosophila larva. 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