Notes
Slide Show
Outline
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Imaging in 3D: Confocal vs. NLO Microscopy?
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Without Optical Sectioning Images Are Blurred
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Some Names
  • PMT Photo Multiplier Tube
  • T-PMT Transmitted light PMT
  • META Multichannel detector for spectral imaging/dye separation
  • NDD Non-Descanned Detector


  • FLIM Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging
  • FRET Fluorescence (Förster) Resonance Energy Transfer
  • FCS Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy
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Microscopy Techniques Available at the Imaging Center
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Techniques Coming to the Imaging Center
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Components of a Laser Scanning Microscope
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Confocal: The Pinhole Suppresses Out-of-Focus Light
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Confocal: The Pinhole Suppresses Out-of-Focus Light
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Confocal: The Pinhole Suppresses Out-of-Focus Light
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NLO does Not Need Pinhole
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Get 3D Information
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The Principle of 2 (or Multi-) Photon Excitation
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1 Photon Excitation (Confocal Microscope)
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1 Photon Excitation (Confocal Microscope)
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Multiphoton Excitation (Nonlinear Excitation, NLO)
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Multiphoton Excitation (Nonlinear Excitation, NLO)
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Multiphoton Excitation (Nonlinear Excitation, NLO)
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NLO: Biocytin traced Nerve Fibers
  • Nerve fibers traced with biocytin in slice culture
  • Staining:
    • avidin-AMCA
  • Excitation:
    • 770 nm (Coherent Chameleon)
  • Detection:
    • KP 685 nm (short pass)
    • Pinhole open
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Non-Descanned Detection
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NLO: No Out of Focus Bleaching
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Reduced Bleaching allows Quantification
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Biological Material is Transparent to NIR-Light
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NLO: Imaging Thick Samples
  • Drosophila-embryo
  • Exc.780nm
  • Hoechst
  • Projection of 120 slices
  • 122 μm thick
  • 521 μm x 305 μm
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NLO Allows Life-Cell Imaging
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Effect of to High Laser Power
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Effect of to High Laser Power
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2 Photon Excitation of Fluorescence Proteins
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NLO: One Laser Wavelength Excites Multiple Dyes
  • FluoCells prepared slide #3 (Molecular Probes)
  • Staining:
    • Alexa Fluor 488 wheat germ agglutinin
    • Alexa Fluor 568 phalloidin
    • DAPI
  • Excitation: 790 nm (Coherent Chameleon)
  • Detection:
    • META 562 - 516 nm
    • META 498 - 530 nm
    • BP 435 - 485 nm
    • Pinhole open



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NLO: One Laser Wavelength Excites Multiple Dyes
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Excitation Fingerprint of GFP-labeled Mouse Embryo
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Excitation Fingerprint of GFP-labeled Mouse Embryo
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Excitation Fingerprint of Unlabeled Mouse Embryo
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Point Spread Function in XY and Z
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Point Spread Function : Size of E. coli Bacterium
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Point Spread Function and Resolution
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High N.A. Increases Resolution
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Shorter Wavelength Increases Resolution
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Confocal vs. 2 Photon: Similar Resolution
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Imaging in 3D: Confocal vs. NLO Microscopy?
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Thanks !
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    • Danny Stark
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