{"id":54,"date":"2015-11-05T14:38:06","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T14:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/?page_id=54"},"modified":"2022-04-13T16:27:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T16:27:17","slug":"fluorescence","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/fluorescence\/","title":{"rendered":"Fluorescence Microscopy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: justify\"><i>What is fluorescence microscopy\u00a0and how can it help me in my research?<\/i><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #222222\">Fluorescence\u00a0<\/span>microscopy<span style=\"color: #222222\">\u00a0is an optical imaging technique\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #222222\">that uses\u00a0<\/span>fluorescence<span style=\"color: #222222\">\u00a0and phosphorescence instead of, or in addition to, reflection and absorption to study the properties of organic or inorganic substances. It is commonly used to detect the presence of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/fluorochromes-2\/\">fluorochromes <\/a>that have been used to selectively contrast biological samples.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Find out more:<\/em><\/h5>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leica-microsystems.com\/science-lab\/fluorescence-in-microscopy\/\">Leica Science Lab<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microscopyu.com\/articles\/fluorescence\/index.html\">Nikon Microscopy U<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/olympus.magnet.fsu.edu\/primer\/techniques\/fluorescence\/fluorhome.html\">Olympus Microscopy Resource Center<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/zeiss-campus.magnet.fsu.edu\/referencelibrary\/fluorescence.html\">Zeiss Online Campus<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Our fluorescence systems:<\/em><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/research-equipment\/equipment\/view\/upright-multimodal-research-microscope\">Olympus BX40 microscope<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/research-equipment\/equipment\/view\/upright-research-microscope\">Olympus BX50 microscope<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/research-equipment\/equipment\/view\/upright,-fully-automated,-multimodal-research-microscope\">Olympus BX61 microscope<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/research-equipment\/equipment\/view\/stereo-zoom-imaging-system\">Olympus SZX12 stereo-zoom microscope<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/research-equipment\/equipment\/view\/confocal-laser-scanning-microscope-with-super-resolution-capability\">Zeiss LSM 880 confocal microscope<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/research-equipment\/equipment\/view\/confocal-laser-scanning-microscope-with-upright-and-inverted-stands\">Leica SP2 confocal microscope<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is fluorescence microscopy\u00a0and how can it help me in my research? Fluorescence\u00a0microscopy\u00a0is an optical imaging technique\u00a0that uses\u00a0fluorescence\u00a0and phosphorescence instead of, or in addition to, reflection and absorption to study the properties of organic or inorganic substances. It is commonly used to detect the presence of\u00a0fluorochromes that have been used to selectively contrast biological samples. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":908,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-54","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1614,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions\/1614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}