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Fluorescence Lifetime Macro Imager for Biomedical Applications
Published on: April 7, 2023
Photoswitchable nanoprobes offer unlimited brightness in frequency-domain imaging
Alexander D Q Li1, Chuanlang Zhan, Dehong Hu
1Department of Chemistry and Center for Materials Research, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, USA. dequan@wsu.edu
Abstract:
A single probe has limited brightness in time-domain imaging and such limitation frequently renders individual molecules undetectable in the presence of interference or complex cellular structures. However, a single photoswitchable probe produces a signal, which can be separated from interference or noise using photoswitching-enabled Fourier transformation (PFT). As a result, the light-modulated probes can be made super bright in the frequency domain simply by acquiring more cycles in the time domain.

