IMAGING THE HETEROGENEOUS UPTAKE OF RADIOLABELED MOLECULES IN SINGLE LIVING CELLS
申请人:Xing Lei
公开号:US20140242600A1
公开(公告)日:2014-08-28
A radioluminescence microscopy system and method for imaging the distribution of radiolabeled molecules in live cell cultures and tissue sections. Cells are grown and incubated with radiolabeled molecules on a scintillator plate or a scintillator plate is placed adjacent to the cells after incubation. Scintillation light produced by decay of radiolabeled molecules inside, bound to, or surrounding the cells, is recorded on an imaging device. Fluorescence microscopy of the same cells with other types of molecules of interest that are labeled with different fluorophores can be conducted concurrently and the biological activity of the labeled molecules can be correlated.