BE 683 Principles and Biomedical Applications of Fluorescence
Fluorescence techniques have been widely used in biology, medicine and pharmaceutics. Especially, fluorescence techniques have become powerful tools for researches in tissue molecular imaging for disease diagnosis and monitoring, biomedical sensing, clinical chemistry, environmental monitoring, and DNA sequencing. In this course, the principles of fluorescence, typical fluorophores and instruments (both in time-domain and frequency-domain) will be introduced. The modern fluorescence techniques will be demonstrated in laboratory, including measuring fluorescence lifetime at nanosecond order and molecular distance at nanometer distance.