Short-pulsed diode lasers as an excitation source for time-resolved fluorescence applications and confocal laser scanning microscopy in PDT

Matthias Kress; Thomas H. Meier; Tarek Abd Allah El-Tayeb; Ralf Kemkemer; Rudolf W. Steiner; Angelika C. Rueck

doi:10.1117/12.447408

2 November 2001 Short-pulsed diode lasers as an excitation source for time-resolved fluorescence applications and confocal laser scanning microscopy in PDT

Matthias Kress, Thomas H. Meier, Tarek Abd Allah El-Tayeb, Ralf Kemkemer, Rudolf W. Steiner, Angelika C. Rueck

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Proceedings Volume 4431, Photon Migration, Optical Coherence Tomography, and Microscopy; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.447408
Event: European Conferences on Biomedical Optics, 2001, Munich, Germany

Abstract

This article describes a setup for subcellular time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy and fluorescence lifetime measurements using a confocal laser scanning microscope in combination with a short pulsed diode laser for fluorescence excitation and specimen illumination. The diode laser emits pulses at 398 nm wavelength with 70 ps full width at half maximum (FWHM) duration. The diode laser can be run at a pulse repetition rate of 40 MHz down to single shot mode. For time resolved spectroscopy a spectrometer setup consisting of an Czerny Turner spectrometer and a MCP-gated and -intensified CCD camera was used. Subcellular fluorescence lifetime measurements were achieved using a time-correlated single photon counting (TCSPC) module instead of the spectrometer setup. The capability of the short pulsed diode laser for fluorescence imaging, fluorescence lifetime measurements and time-resolved spectroscopy in combination with laser scanning microscopy is demonstrated by fluorescence analysis of several photosensitizers on a single cell level.

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Matthias Kress, Thomas H. Meier, Tarek Abd Allah El-Tayeb, Ralf Kemkemer, Rudolf W. Steiner, and Angelika C. Rueck "Short-pulsed diode lasers as an excitation source for time-resolved fluorescence applications and confocal laser scanning microscopy in PDT", Proc. SPIE 4431, Photon Migration, Optical Coherence Tomography, and Microscopy, (2 November 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.447408

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