
pmid: 11559001
Multiphoton fluorescence microscopy has now become a relatively common tool among biophysicists and biologists. The intrinsic sectioning achievable by multiphoton excitation provides a simple means to excite a small volume inside cells and tissues. Multiphoton microscopes have a simplified optical path in the emission side due to the lack of an emission pinhole, which is necessary with normal confocal microscopes. This article illustrates examples in which this advantage in the simplified optics is exploited to achieve a new type of measurements. First, dual-emission wavelength measurements are used to identify regions of different phase domains in giant vesicles and to perform fluctuation experiments at specific locations in the membrane. Second, we show how dual-wavelength measurements are used in conjunction with scanning fluctuation analysis to measure the changes in the geometry of the domains and the incipient formation of gel domains when the temperature of the giant vesicles is gradually lowered.
Membrane Fluidity, Clinical Sciences, Bioengineering, correlation spectroscopy, Fluorescence Polarization, Fluorescence, multiphoton excitation, scanning, two-photon microscopy, Fluorescent Dyes, fluctuation correlation spectroscopy, Microscopy, Laurdan, Photons, Microscopy, Confocal, Spectrometry, fluctuation, generalized polarization, giant unilamellar vesicles, Biological Sciences, 540, Spectrometry, Fluorescence, Microscopy, Fluorescence, Confocal, Biochemistry and cell biology, Quantum Theory, Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Membrane Fluidity, Clinical Sciences, Bioengineering, correlation spectroscopy, Fluorescence Polarization, Fluorescence, multiphoton excitation, scanning, two-photon microscopy, Fluorescent Dyes, fluctuation correlation spectroscopy, Microscopy, Laurdan, Photons, Microscopy, Confocal, Spectrometry, fluctuation, generalized polarization, giant unilamellar vesicles, Biological Sciences, 540, Spectrometry, Fluorescence, Microscopy, Fluorescence, Confocal, Biochemistry and cell biology, Quantum Theory, Biochemistry and Cell Biology
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