Note: in vivo pH imaging system using luminescent indicator and color camera

Rev Sci Instrum. 2012 Jul;83(7):076106. doi: 10.1063/1.4737875.

Abstract

Microscopic in vivo pH imaging system is developed that can capture the luminescent- and color-imaging. The former gives a quantitative measurement of a pH distribution in vivo. The latter captures the structural information that can be overlaid to the pH distribution for correlating the structure of a specimen and its pH distribution. By using a digital color camera, a luminescent image as well as a color image is obtained. The system uses HPTS (8-hydroxypyrene-1,3,6-trisulfonate) as a luminescent pH indicator for the luminescent imaging. Filter units are mounted in the microscope, which extract two luminescent images for using the excitation-ratio method. A ratio of the two images is converted to a pH distribution through a priori pH calibration. An application of the system to epidermal cells of Lactuca Sativa L is shown.

MeSH terms

  • Colorimetry / instrumentation*
  • Equipment Design
  • Equipment Failure Analysis
  • Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
  • Lighting / instrumentation*
  • Luminescent Measurements / instrumentation*
  • Microscopy / instrumentation*