Highly inclined thin illumination enables clear single-molecule imaging in cells
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- 6 January 2008
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature Methods
- Vol. 5 (2) , 159-161
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth1171
Abstract
We describe a simple illumination method of fluorescence microscopy for molecular imaging. Illumination by a highly inclined and thin beam increases image intensity and decreases background intensity, yielding a signal/background ratio about eightfold greater than that of epi-illumination. A high ratio yielded clear single-molecule images and three-dimensional images using cultured mammalian cells, enabling one to visualize and quantify molecular dynamics, interactions and kinetics in cells for molecular systems biology.Keywords
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