Mo and Hans's work here is truly a landmark in dense structural imaging, but the proof of the pudding is in the eating. Do yourself a favor and check out the Neuroglancer links and get an early glimpse at a technique I'm confident we'll see more and more over the next few years.
A technique called LICONN (light-microscopy-based connectomics) allows mapping of brain tissue at synapse level and simultaneous measurement of molecular information, thus enabling quantification of c...