Evidence map›Paper›PMID 40190475›Full record

ArticleMethods in microscopy2025

Calibration approaches for fluorescence lifetime applications using time-domain measurements.

Anca Margineanu

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Methods in microscopy, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Anca MargineanuAdvanced Light Microscopy, Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft, Robert-Rössle-Straße 10, 13125 Berlin, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6634-9729

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This tutorial focuses on presenting experimental protocols for acquiring instrument response functions (IRF) and for calibrating the instruments using reference dyes with validated lifetime in time-domain fluorescence lifetime measurements. Step-by-step preparation of different samples used for the calibrations (scatter solutions, crystals generating second harmonic signal and reference dyes) and the corresponding instrument settings in one- and two-photon excitation are explained. The expected shape of the IRF curves and reference decays are shown using experimentally acquired examples, followed by troubleshooting of the instruments when the expected results are distorted. The discussions focus on the importance of using IRF and reference dyes for adjusting the acquisition parameters of the time-resolved instrument, for data analysis and for comparison and extrapolation of lifetime values between different biological systems.

Indexed as

FLIMinstrument response function (IRF)reference dyes

Identifiers

PMID40190475
PMCPMC11969142

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.