Nanosecond imaging of quantum dots in highly fluorescent media

Andrew C. Mitchell; Christopher G. Morgan

doi:10.1117/12.710613

5 February 2007 Nanosecond imaging of quantum dots in highly fluorescent media

Andrew C. Mitchell, Christopher G. Morgan

Proceedings Volume 6448, Colloidal Quantum Dots for Biomedical Applications II; 64480Q (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.710613
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2007, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

Quantum dots are now recognised as valuable luminescent labels. Amongst their desirable characteristics is a relatively long luminescence decay time that can allow selective detection in the presence of shorter lived background fluorescence. Here we demonstrate that nanosecond time-resolved imaging of quantum dot samples is easily accomplished with a directly-gated cooled CCD system that does not require an image intensifier stage to achieve nanosecond time resolution. The approach is likely to find application both to imaging of quantum dots in the presence of autofluorescence from tissues and also for time-resolved measurements of resonance energy transfer from quantum dot donors to conventional acceptor labels.

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Andrew C. Mitchell and Christopher G. Morgan "Nanosecond imaging of quantum dots in highly fluorescent media", Proc. SPIE 6448, Colloidal Quantum Dots for Biomedical Applications II, 64480Q (5 February 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.710613

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