TY - JOUR
T1 - Spectrally resolved confocal microscopy using lanthanide centred near-IR emission
AU - Liao, Zhiyu
AU - Tropiano, Manuel
AU - Mantulnikovs, Konstantins
AU - Faulkner, Stephen
AU - Vosch, Tom André Jos
AU - Sørensen, Thomas Just
N1 - OA
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The narrow, near infrared (NIR) emission from lanthanide ions has attracted great interest, particularly with regard to developing tools for bioimaging, where the long lifetimes of lanthanide excited states can be exploited to address problems arising from autofluorescence and sample transparency. Despite the promise of lanthanide-based probes for near-IR imaging, few reports on their use are present in the literature. Here, we demonstrate that images can be recorded by monitoring NIR emission from lanthanide complexes using detectors, optical elements and a microscope that were primarily designed for the visible part of the spectrum.
AB - The narrow, near infrared (NIR) emission from lanthanide ions has attracted great interest, particularly with regard to developing tools for bioimaging, where the long lifetimes of lanthanide excited states can be exploited to address problems arising from autofluorescence and sample transparency. Despite the promise of lanthanide-based probes for near-IR imaging, few reports on their use are present in the literature. Here, we demonstrate that images can be recorded by monitoring NIR emission from lanthanide complexes using detectors, optical elements and a microscope that were primarily designed for the visible part of the spectrum.
U2 - 10.1039/c4cc09618e
DO - 10.1039/c4cc09618e
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 25563394
AN - SCOPUS:84921874734
VL - 51
SP - 2372
EP - 2375
JO - Chemical Communications
JF - Chemical Communications
SN - 1359-7345
IS - 12
ER -