New strategies for fluorescent probe design in medical diagnostic imaging

H Kobayashi, M Ogawa, R Alford, PL Choyke… - Chemical …, 2010 - ACS Publications
In vivo medical imaging has made great progress due to advances in the engineering of
imaging devices and developments in the chemistry of imaging probes. Several modalities …

FRAP, FLIM, and FRET: Detection and analysis of cellular dynamics on a molecular scale using fluorescence microscopy

C De Los Santos, CW Chang… - Molecular …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The combination of fluorescent‐probe technology plus modern optical microscopes allows
investigators to monitor dynamic events in living cells with exquisite temporal and spatial …

Neural networks push the limits of luminescence lifetime nanosensing

L Ming, I Zabala‐Gutierrez… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Luminescence lifetime‐based sensing is ideally suited to monitor biological systems due to
its minimal invasiveness and remote working principle. Yet, its applicability is limited in …

Quantitative imaging of genetically encoded fluorescence lifetime biosensors

CQ Vu, S Arai - Biosensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Genetically encoded fluorescence lifetime biosensors have emerged as powerful tools for
quantitative imaging, enabling precise measurement of cellular metabolites, molecular …

Vinculin tension distributions of individual stress fibers within cell–matrix adhesions

CW Chang, S Kumar - Journal of cell science, 2013 - journals.biologists.com
Actomyosin stress fibers (SFs) enable cells to exert traction on planar extracellular matrices
(ECMs) by tensing focal adhesions (FAs) at the cell–ECM interface. Although it is widely …

Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy for quantitative biological imaging

LC Chen, WR Lloyd III, CW Chang, D Sud… - Methods in cell biology, 2013 - Elsevier
Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) is a method for measuring fluorophore
lifetimes with microscopic spatial resolution, providing a useful tool for cell biologists to …

Analog mean-delay method for high-speed fluorescence lifetime measurement

S Moon, Y Won, DY Kim - Optics express, 2009 - opg.optica.org
We present a new high-speed lifetime measurement scheme of analog mean-delay (AMD)
method which is suitable for studying dynamical time-resolved spectroscopy and high-speed …

Single-molecule photon stamping FRET spectroscopy study of enzymatic conformational dynamics

Y He, M Lu, HP Lu - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
The fluorescence resonant energy transfer (FRET) from a donor to an acceptor via transition
dipole–dipole interactions decreases the donor's fluorescent lifetime. The donor's …

Enhancing precision in time-domain fluorescence lifetime imaging

CW Chang, MA Mycek - Journal of biomedical optics, 2010 - spiedigitallibrary.org
In biological applications of fluorescence lifetime imaging, low signals from samples can be
a challenge, causing poor lifetime precision. We demonstrate how optimal signal gating (a …

Assessment of gate width size on lifetime-based Förster Resonance Energy Transfer parameter estimation

SJ Chen, N Sinsuebphon, X Intes - Photonics, 2015 - mdpi.com
Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) enables the observation of interactions at the
nanoscale level through the use of fluorescence optical imaging techniques. In FRET …