Spatially resolved fluorescence correlation spectroscopy based on electron multiplying CCD

Masayoshi Matsumoto; Tadao Sugiura; Kotaro Minato

doi:10.1117/12.728399

13 July 2007 Spatially resolved fluorescence correlation spectroscopy based on electron multiplying CCD

Masayoshi Matsumoto, Tadao Sugiura, Kotaro Minato

Proceedings Volume 6630, Confocal, Multiphoton, and Nonlinear Microscopic Imaging III; 663017 (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.728399
Event: European Conferences on Biomedical Optics, 2007, Munich, Germany

Abstract

Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) is widely used for investigation of concentration, diffusion coefficients and dynamics of single molecules. To introduce spatial resolution in FCS measurement, we develop a novel FCS system, which uses an electron-multiplying charge-coupled device (EM-CCD) to get FCS data at each pixel. We tested 3 samples, which have different concentrations of fluorescent beads, and successfully investigated the difference of correlation coefficients of FCS signal. In addition, we introduce a new illumination method for EM-CCD based FCS measurement, to limit depth of a observation volume. Although a evanescent field has a nature of limited penetration depth, the penetration depth which is 50 to 200nm in typical, is short in comparison with the resolution in the lateral direction. As a result FCS measurement becomes too sensitive in the depth direction, but worse in lateral direction. So we introduce a novel illumination method, in which a laser beam is incident with an angle slightly smaller than the critical angle to illuminate fluorescent molecule (critical-angle illumination). The depth of observation volume can be controlled with the angle of incidence. We expect this method to be applied to a measurement of local diffusion coefficient of molecules in living cells.

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Masayoshi Matsumoto, Tadao Sugiura, and Kotaro Minato "Spatially resolved fluorescence correlation spectroscopy based on electron multiplying CCD", Proc. SPIE 6630, Confocal, Multiphoton, and Nonlinear Microscopic Imaging III, 663017 (13 July 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.728399

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