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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300370703321

Autore

Mondal Partha Pratim

Titolo

Fundamentals of Fluorescence Microscopy : Exploring Life with Light / / by Partha Pratim Mondal, Alberto Diaspro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

94-007-7545-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XV, 218 p. 140 illus., 55 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

502.82

Soggetti

Spectroscopy

Microscopy

Biophysics

Biological physics

Lasers

Photonics

Spectroscopy and Microscopy

Biological Microscopy

Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics

Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices

Spectroscopy/Spectrometry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- Ray Optics, Wave Optics and Imaging System Designing -- Basics of Electromagnetic Theory for Fluorescence Microscopy -- Electric Field Effects in Optical Microscopy Systems -- Quantum Description of Radiation Field and Optical Microscopy -- Molecular Physics of Fluorescence Markers -- Basics of Fluorescence and Photophysics -- General Fluorescence Imaging Techniques -- Multiphoton Fluorescence Microscopy -- Super Resolution Fluorescence Microscopy -- Image Reconstruction Methodologies for Fluorescence Microscopy -- Future Prospective of Fluorescence Microscopy -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Appendix III.

Sommario/riassunto

This book starts at an introductory level and leads reader to the most advanced developments in fluorescence imaging and super-resolution



techniques that have enabled the emergence of new disciplines such as nanobioimaging, multiphoton microscopy, photodynamic therapy, nanometrology and nanosensors. The interdisciplinary subject of fluorescence microscopy and imaging requires complete knowledge of imaging optics and molecular physics. So, this book approaches the subject by introducing optical imaging concepts before going deep into the advanced imaging systems and their applications. Molecular orbital theory forms the basis for understanding fluorescent molecules and thereby facilitates complete explanation of light-matter interaction at the geometrical focus. The two disciplines have some overlap since light controls the states of molecules and conversely, molecular states control the emitted light. These two mechanisms together determine essential fluorescence factors and phenomena such as, molecular cross-section, Stokes shift, emission and absorption spectra, quantum yield, signal-to-noise ratio, Forster resonance energy transfer (FRET), fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) and fluorescence lifetime. These phenomena form the basis of many fluorescence based devices. The book is organized into two parts. The first part deals with basics of imaging optics and its applications. The advanced part covers many imaging techniques and related instrumentation that are developed in the last decade pointing towards far-field diffraction limited and unlimited imaging.