IntensityCheck – The light measuring app for microscope performance checks and consistent fluorescence imaging

Publishing date: 2019-05-02

Published on: PLOS ONE

summary: Quantitative fluorescence imaging is an essential tool in biomedical research. It requires consistent and repeatable conditions such as constant sample illumination. Even on a confocal microscope this can usually only be achieved by using an external laser power meter. By combining low-cost wireless Arduino based light sensors with an easy to use Android smartphone app the authors provide microscope users with a simple but powerful tool to maintain sample illumination for quantitative imaging, for tracking the intensity, stability and alignment of the light sources and for comparing microscope performance.

authors: Dirk Dormann

link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0214659

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