Two Girls with Microscope Magnet

AssetID: 6524-000211 / Sean Justice / Two Girls with Microscope Two-photon excitation microscopy is a fluorescence imaging technique that allows imaging of living tissue up to a very high depth, that is up to about one millimeter. Being a special variant of the multiphoton fluorescence microscope , it uses red-shifted excitation light which can also excite fluorescent dyes . However for each excitation, two photons of the infrared light are absorbed. Using infrared light minimizes scattering in the tissue. Due to the multiphoton absorption the background signal is strongly suppressed. Both effects lead to an increased penetration depth for these microscopes. However, the resolution remains diffraction-limited . Two-photon excitation can be a superior alternative to confocal microscopy due to its deeper tissue penetration, efficient light detection and reduced phototoxicity . This page is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, anyone associated with the topic.