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Fluorescence microscopy has served as the standard in recording this neural activity due to its ability to capture large populations of neurons simultaneously. Recent efforts in fluorescence microscopy have been concentrated in imaging large scale volumes, however, most of these efforts have been limited by spatiotemporal and bandwidth constraints. We present a novel system called Transverse-Sheet Illumination Microscopy (TranSIM), which captures spatially separated planes onto multiple two-dimensional sCMOS sensors at near diffraction limited resolution with 1.0 \u00b5m, 1.4 \u00b5m, and 4.3 \u00b5m (x, y, and z respectively). The parallel use of sensors reduces the bandwidth bottlenecks typically found in other systems. TranSIM allows for the capturing of data at large-scale volumetric field-of-views up to 748 \u00d7 278 \u00d7 100 \u00b5m\n                  <jats:sup>3<\/jats:sup>\n                  at 100 Hz. 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