Dual emission imaging — no problem

Published: 27-Sep-2001


The Microimager from Photonics creates two spectrally different images on a CCD chip, allowing a microscope operator to capture multiple images without having to change filters.

Typical applications for the beamsplitter are indo-calcium imaging and CFP/YFP fluorescence resonance energy transfer, where two biological molecules are labelled with different dyes, donor fluorophore and acceptor fluorophore.

Donor fluorophore is excited with narrow band illumination and stimulates the fluorescence of the donor-labelled molecule. The donor transfers its energy without emission to the acceptor molecule as it comes into close proximity of the donor-labelled molecule. As a result of the energy transfer, the donor fluorescence is quenched and the acceptor fluorescence is stimulated to emit a fluorescence photon.

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