Background Suppression in Imaging Gold Nanorods through Detection of Anti-Stokes Emission.

Abstract:

:Metallic nanoparticles have opened the possibility of imaging, tracking, and manipulating biological samples without time limitations. Their low photoluminescence quantum yield, however, makes them hard to detect under high background conditions. In this study we show that it is possible to image gold nanorods by detecting their anti-Stokes emission under resonant excitation. We show that even in the membrane of a cell containing the fluorescent dye Atto 647N, the signal/background of the anti-Stokes emission can be >10, while it is impossible to image the particles with the Stokes emission. The main advantage of this technique is that it does not require any major change in existing fluorescence imaging setups, only the addition of an appropriate short-pass filter in the detection path.

journal_name

Biophys J

journal_title

Biophysical journal

authors

Carattino A,Keizer VIP,Schaaf MJM,Orrit M

doi

10.1016/j.bpj.2016.10.035

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2016-12-06 00:00:00

pages

2492-2499

issue

11

eissn

0006-3495

issn

1542-0086

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S0006-3495(16)30994-8

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111

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