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Analysis of heterogeneous fluorescence photobleaching by video kinetics imaging: The method of cumulants

Analysis of heterogeneous fluorescence photobleaching by video kinetics imaging: The method of... The method of cumulants has been applied to digital video fluorescence microscopy. The method is used to reconstruct the distribution of fluorescent molecules before the initiation of fluorescence photobleaching, and to characterize heterogeneous photobleaching by imaging one or more of the cumulants of the bleaching decay rate. Using the pipelined pixel processor of the image analysis system for the bulk of the calculations, rather than the general‐purpose host‐computer CPU, the video kinetics imaging can be performed in near real‐time. The method is applied to chick embryo myotubes labelled with fluorescein‐conjugated α‐bungarotoxin. The pre‐bleach fluorescence distribution is derived, and the image of fluorescein fluorescence is separated from glutaraldehyde‐induced autofluorescence on the basis of the spatially resolved average photobleaching decay rate. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Microscopy Wiley

Analysis of heterogeneous fluorescence photobleaching by video kinetics imaging: The method of cumulants

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Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
Copyright © 1989 Wiley Subscription Services
ISSN
0022-2720
eISSN
1365-2818
DOI
10.1111/j.1365-2818.1989.tb02882.x
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Abstract

The method of cumulants has been applied to digital video fluorescence microscopy. The method is used to reconstruct the distribution of fluorescent molecules before the initiation of fluorescence photobleaching, and to characterize heterogeneous photobleaching by imaging one or more of the cumulants of the bleaching decay rate. Using the pipelined pixel processor of the image analysis system for the bulk of the calculations, rather than the general‐purpose host‐computer CPU, the video kinetics imaging can be performed in near real‐time. The method is applied to chick embryo myotubes labelled with fluorescein‐conjugated α‐bungarotoxin. The pre‐bleach fluorescence distribution is derived, and the image of fluorescein fluorescence is separated from glutaraldehyde‐induced autofluorescence on the basis of the spatially resolved average photobleaching decay rate.

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Journal of MicroscopyWiley

Published: Jan 1, 1989

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