title: Modern confocal microscopy.
abstract: This unit re-examines confocal microscopy from a current perspective. It outlines many of the most modern applications of confocal microscopy and the issues surrounding them. The expanding applications of confocal microscopy demand both minor and major modifications of the technology to enhance imaging capabilities for a growing variety of samples. Techniques of interest such as FRET, FLIP, FRAP, and IFRAP are described. The unit includes a discussion on multispectral imaging, potentially the most exciting innovation in the field of biological imaging. The other area that is beginning to have considerable impact on biology, medicine, and pharmacology comprises high-content screening (HCS) and high-throughput screening (HTS). This unit also introduces programmable array microscopes (PAMs), which are based upon a technique in which spatial modulators are placed in the imaging plane of a microscope and used to generate patterns of illumination and/or detection.
authors.affiliation: Purdue University, Cytometry Laboratories, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.
authors.forename: Bartek
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rajwa
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000166:cytology; D031541:Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer; D019044:Image Cytometry; D007089:Image Enhancement; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D018613:Microscopy, Confocal / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D008856:Microscopy, Fluorescence / Q000379:methods; D012984:Software; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence / Q000379:methods