Low cost and open source multi-fluorescence imaging system for teaching and research in biology and bioengineering

Publishing date: 2017-11-15

Published on: PLOS ONE

summary: In this exciting design, the authors present a large-field of view fluorescence chamber for visualisation of, well, anything that fluoresceses. Using LEDs and low-cost acrylics the system is set-up to allow for convenient simultaneous imaging in multiple colours using an RGB camera. The main demonstration in the paper is for use with bacterial cultures, but the set-up should work for all manners of things. Perhaps this can double as a gel transilluminator? In hand, it comes with a handy set of software routines to analyse the data.

authors: Isaac Nuñez, Tamara Matute, Roberto Herrera, Juan Keymer, Timothy Marzullo, Timothy Rudge, Fernán Federici

link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0187163

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