Autofluorescence spectroscopy and imaging: a tool for biomedical research and diagnosis
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine · University of Pavia · +2 more institutions
Abstract
Native fluorescence, or autofluorescence (AF), consists in the emission of light in the UV-visible, near-IR spectral range when biological substrates are excited with light at suitable wavelength. This is a well-known phenomenon, and the strict relationship of many endogenous fluorophores with morphofunctional properties of the living systems, influencing their AF emission features, offers an extremely powerful resource for directly monitoring the biological substrate condition. Starting from the last century, the technological progresses in microscopy and spectrofluorometry were convoying attention of the scientific community to this phenomenon. In the future, the interest in the autofluorescence will…
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Authors
2- ACAnna Cleta CroceCorresponding
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, University of Pavia, National Research Council, Institute of Molecular Genetics
- GBGiovanni Bottiroli
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, University of Pavia, Institute of Molecular Genetics
Topics & keywords
- Autofluorescence
- Nanotechnology
- Characterization (materials science)
- Instrumentation (computer programming)
- Fluorescence
- Materials science
- Computer science
- Optics