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ArticleJournal of microscopy2026

A fluorescence lifetime separation approach for FLIM live-cell imaging.

Cornelia Wetzker, Marcelo Leomil Zoccoler, Svetlana Iarovenko, Chukwuebuka William Okafornta, Anja Nobst, Hella Hartmann, Thomas Müller-Reichert, Robert Haase, Gunar Fabig

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Article in Journal of microscopy, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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9 authors.

Cornelia WetzkerB CUBE - Center for Molecular Bioengineering, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8367-5163
Marcelo Leomil ZoccolerDFG Cluster of Excellence 'Physics of Life' (PoL), Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6165-4679
Svetlana IarovenkoLight Microscopy Facility, Technology Platform, Center for Molecular and Cellular Bioengineering, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5759-6496
Chukwuebuka William OkaforntaExperimental Center, Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8094-1254
Anja NobstCore Facility Cellular Imaging (CFCI), Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0009-0009-7468-180X
Hella HartmannLight Microscopy Facility, Technology Platform, Center for Molecular and Cellular Bioengineering, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7133-7474
Thomas Müller-ReichertExperimental Center, Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0203-1436
Robert HaaseDFG Cluster of Excellence 'Physics of Life' (PoL), Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5949-2327
Gunar FabigExperimental Center, Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3017-0978

Funding

Enhancing and expanding the CGC Strain CollectionP40OD010440 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI Ann E. Rougvie · 2012 to 2026
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CCBx program SF 1157392Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 258577783Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 282354882Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft NFDI 46/1NFDI4BIOIMAGE: a consortium of the Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (NFDI) e.V.NIH HHS P40 OD010440ODCDC CDC HHS P40 OD010440
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) translates the duration of excited states of fluorophores into lifetime information as an additional source of contrast in images of biological samples. This offers the possibility to separate fluorophores particularly beneficial in case of similar excitation spectra. Here, we demonstrate the distinction of fluorescent molecules based on FLIM phasor analysis, called lifetime separation, in live-cell imaging using open-source software for analysis. We showcase two applications using Caenorhabditis elegans as a model system. First, we separated the highly spectrally overlapping fluorophores mCherry and mKate2 to distinctively track tagged proteins in six-dimensional datasets to investigate cell division in the developing early embryo. Second, we separated fluorescence of tagged proteins of interest from masking natural autofluorescence in adult hermaphrodites. For FLIM data handling and workflow implementation, we developed the open-source plugin napari-flim-phasor-plotter to implement conversion, visualisation, analysis and reuse of FLIM data of different formats. Our work thus advances technical applications and bioimage data management and analysis in FLIM microscopy for life science research.

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Caenorhabditis elegansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedOptical ImagingAnimalsFluorescent DyesLuminescent ProteinsMicroscopy, FluorescenceSoftwareFluorescent DyesLuminescent ProteinsFLIMlive‐cell imagingnapariOMEROphasor

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PMID41025451
PMCPMC12746358

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