FRET imaging is widely used in biology to map protein interactions in living cells. A number of recent technical developments promise to provide more accurate and quantitative measurement FRET efficiencies and protein bonding ratio. Using a reference FRET construct based on a doubly labeled DNA, one can estimate the accuracy of different techniques like spectral or lifetime imaging to resolve FRET. Further improvement have lead to the possibility of measuring in a single detector both spectral and lifetime information from the fluorescence emitted by the sample. We are currently building such a system based on an intensity modulated multi-anode PMT and have developed a global fitting algorithm to extract valuable information from combined spectral and lifetime imaging data sets.

Date Published: 21 June 2004
PDF: 6 pages
Proc. SPIE 5323, Multiphoton Microscopy in the Biomedical Sciences IV, (21 June 2004); doi: 10.1117/12.537620

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 5323:
Multiphoton Microscopy in the Biomedical Sciences IV
Ammasi Periasamy; Peter T. C. So, Editor(s)