Three-dimensional molecular mapping in a microfluidic mixing device using fluorescence lifetime imaging

Opt Lett. 2008 Aug 15;33(16):1887-9. doi: 10.1364/ol.33.001887.

Abstract

Fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) is used to quantitatively map the concentration of a small molecule in three dimensions in a microfluidic mixing device. The resulting experimental data are compared with computational fluid-dynamics (CFD) simulations. A line-scanning semiconfocal FLIM microscope allows the full mixing profile to be imaged in a single scan with submicrometer resolution over an arbitrary channel length from the point of confluence. Following experimental and CFD optimization, mixing times down to 1.3+/-0.4 ms were achieved with the single-layer microfluidic device.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Calibration
  • Equipment Design
  • Fluorescence
  • Imaging, Three-Dimensional
  • Kinetics
  • Microfluidic Analytical Techniques / instrumentation
  • Microfluidics*
  • Microscopy, Fluorescence / instrumentation
  • Microscopy, Fluorescence / methods*
  • Time Factors