Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy: fundamentals and advances in instrumentation, analysis, and applications

R Datta, TM Heaster, JT Sharick… - … of biomedical optics, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Significance: Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) is a powerful technique to
distinguish the unique molecular environment of fluorophores. FLIM measures the time a …

Chemistry, biology, and medicine of fluorescent nanomaterials and related systems: new insights into biosensing, bioimaging, genomics, diagnostics, and therapy

J Yao, M Yang, Y Duan - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
2. INTRODUCTION The investigation of many fundamental processes in life sciences
requires straightforward tools for fast, sensitive, reliable, and reproducible detection of …

Activatable fluorescence sensors for in vivo bio-detection in the second near-infrared window

M Zhao, B Li, H Zhang, F Zhang - Chemical Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Fluorescence imaging in the second near-infrared (NIR-II, 1000–1700 nm) window has
exhibited advantages of high optical resolution at deeper penetration (ca. 5–20 mm) in bio …

Fluorescence lifetime imaging–techniques and applications

W Becker - Journal of microscopy, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) uses the fact that the fluorescence lifetime of a
fluorophore depends on its molecular environment but not on its concentration. Molecular …

Nonlinear magic: multiphoton microscopy in the biosciences

WR Zipfel, RM Williams, WW Webb - Nature biotechnology, 2003 - nature.com
Multiphoton microscopy (MPM) has found a niche in the world of biological imaging as the
best noninvasive means of fluorescence microscopy in tissue explants and living animals …

Advanced time-correlated single photon counting techniques for spectroscopy and imaging in biomedical systems

W Becker, A Bergmann, GL Biscotti… - … Applications of Ultrafast …, 2004 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Time-correlated single photon counting (TCSPC) is based on the detection of single photons
of a periodic light signal, measurement of the detection time of the photons, and the build-up …

Fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM): Basic concepts and some recent developments

K Suhling, LM Hirvonen, JA Levitt, PH Chung… - Medical photonics, 2015 - Elsevier
Fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) is a key fluorescence microscopy technique to map the
environment and interaction of fluorescent probes. It can report on photophysical events that …

The phasor approach to fluorescence lifetime imaging analysis

MA Digman, VR Caiolfa, M Zamai, E Gratton - Biophysical journal, 2008 - cell.com
Changing the data representation from the classical time delay histogram to the phasor
representation provides a global view of the fluorescence decay at each pixel of an image …

Principles of two-photon excitation microscopy and its applications to neuroscience

K Svoboda, R Yasuda - Neuron, 2006 - cell.com
The brain is complex and dynamic. The spatial scales of interest to the neurobiologist range
from individual synapses (∼ 1 μm) to neural circuits (centimeters); the timescales range from …

Advances in single-molecule fluorescence methods for molecular biology

C Joo, H Balci, Y Ishitsuka, C Buranachai… - Annu. Rev …, 2008 - annualreviews.org
Ever since their introduction two decades ago, single-molecule (SM) fluorescence methods
have matured and branched out to address numerous biological questions, which were …