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Rapid Analysis and Exploration of Fluorescence Microscopy Images
Published on: March 19, 2014
Imaging Flies by Fluorescence Microscopy: Principles, Technologies, and Applications
Sebastian Dunst1, Pavel Tomancak2
1German Centre for the Protection of Laboratory Animals (Bf3R), German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, 10589 Berlin, Germany unst@bfr.bund.de tomancak@mpi-cbg.de.
Abstract:
The development of fluorescent labels and powerful imaging technologies in the last two decades has revolutionized the field of fluorescence microscopy, which is now widely used in diverse scientific fields from biology to biomedical and materials science. Fluorescence microscopy has also become a standard technique in research laboratories working on Drosophila melanogaster as a model organism. Here, we review the principles of fluorescence microscopy technologies from wide-field to Super-resolution microscopy and its application in the Drosophila research field.
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