Optical refocusing three-dimensional wide-field fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy

Opt Express. 2012 Jan 16;20(2):960-5. doi: 10.1364/OE.20.000960.

Abstract

Three-dimensional fluorescence lifetime microscopy is achieved by combining wide-field fluorescence lifetime imaging with a remote optical refocusing method. As required for some applications in dynamic research for physics, chemistry, or biology, it is thereby not necessary to move the sample, i.e., the specimen is not disturbed during measurement. Using a fluorescent microsphere the performance of the system has been tested successfully with respect to three-dimensional fluorescence lifetime microscopy as well as time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Equipment Design
  • Fluorescent Dyes
  • Imaging, Three-Dimensional / instrumentation*
  • Lenses
  • Microscopy, Fluorescence / instrumentation*
  • Models, Theoretical*

Substances

  • Fluorescent Dyes