UV LED excited time-resolved fluorescence microscope

Russell Connally, Dayong Jin, Jim Piper, Tom Lawson

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    Abstract

    Many naturally occurring substances are intrinsically fluorescent (autofluorescent) when exited at an appropriate wavelength and emission can occur throughout the visible spectrum. Autofluorescence is typically a short-lived phenomena with a lifetime (t) measured in nanoseconds and this property is exploited in Time-Resolved Fluorescence (TRF) microscopy to enhance detection of labelled pathogens against autofluorescence background. The TRF methods are based on the use of immunofluorescent labels with long fluorescence lifetimes (~600 μs) to ensure that labelled target is viable long after short-lived autofluorescence has faded. Pulsed excitation is used to excite fluorescence from the sample and this is followed by a gate-delay phase to permit decay of short-lived fluorescence. When flashlamps are used as the excitation source, the gate-delay period must be extended (>50 μs) to ensure that light from the decaying plasma has decayed to zero. The extended gate-delay results in a significant loss of fluorescence intensity from the synthetic label and this is avoided with solidstate excitation sources. A high-power (>100 mW) Light Emitting Diodes (LEDS) (λ 365 nm) was substituted for the flashlamp and found to give excellent background suppression and strong label fluorescence compared to flashlamp excitation.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)724-725
    Number of pages2
    JournalCytometry Part A
    Volume75A
    Issue number8
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Aug 2009
    Event14th Leipziger Workshop/7th International Workshop on Slide Based Cytometry - Leipzig, Germany
    Duration: 2 Apr 20094 Apr 2009

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