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7 March 2022 Computational single-photon counting for fast fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy using single- and multi-photon peak event detection
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Abstract
Multiphoton and confocal laser scanning fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) are often limited by slow acquisition due to the dead time of photon-counting and time-tagging analog electronics. Here, we present a solution for faster imaging with lower dead time by directly digitizing the amplified detector output and computationally determining photon counts via GPU-accelerated processing using our custom Single- and multi-photon PEak Event Detection (SPEED) algorithm. The algorithm uses thresholded local maxima detection to temporally localize photon counts in the digitized data, enabling sub-ns dead time between consecutive photon counts.
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Janet E. Sorrells, Rishyashring R. Iyer, Lingxiao Yang, Eric J. Chaney, Marina Marjanovic, Haohua Tu, and Stephen A. Boppart "Computational single-photon counting for fast fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy using single- and multi-photon peak event detection", Proc. SPIE PC11965, Multiphoton Microscopy in the Biomedical Sciences XXII, PC119650D (7 March 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2607777
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KEYWORDS
Fluorescence lifetime imaging

Microscopy

Multiphoton fluorescence microscopy

Multiphoton microscopy

Photon counting

Single photon detectors

Analog electronics

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