Re: Time gating fluorescence signal with FPGA on NI PCIe-7852R board

Posted by Lu Yan on
URL: http://confocal-microscopy-list.275.s1.nabble.com/Time-gating-fluorescence-signal-with-FPGA-on-NI-PCIe-7852R-board-tp7584804p7584810.html

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Just want to push this again... getting so low progress on the labview
coding with R-series to control the scanning microscope...

Thanks much,
Lu

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Lu Yan
Nanostructured Fibers and Nonlinear Optics Laboratory
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Boston University
8 St. Mary St., Boston, MA, 02215
617.353.0286 (office) | 617.358.5917 (lab)
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On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Yan, Lu <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> We are looking into options to do the time gating of fluorescence signal
> in confocal/STED microscopy. Besides the widely used TCSPC tech, it seemed
> that using FPGA on NI DAQ card is getting popular. I found in this paper
> and some others as well [F. GÄorlitz et al., "A STED Microscope Designed
> for Routine Biomedical Applications", Progress In Electromagnetics
> Research, Vol. 147, 57(2014)], NI R series board PCIe-7852R was used, and
> the on board FPGA was employed to control the time gating. I am currently
> using a PCI-6353 card, and I just realized that programming the Labview
> with DAQmx and R series cards are so different and they are not compatible,
> so my labview code would not work with this new card. At this moment, I
> find it a bit difficult to start with using PCIe-7852R, and I think it's
> gonna take me a while before I can get the labview code up and running
> again. But before that happens, I thought maybe I can get some help from
> the list. So would anyone be willing to share some thoughts or maybe even
> pieces of example labview code if you are also using a R series card to
> control your scanning microscopy setup with a photon counting detector? I
> will certainly look for example codes online, mainly from the NI forum but
> I have a feeling that I will have better chance here on the list.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Lu
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> Lu Yan
> Nanostructured Fibers and Nonlinear Optics Laboratory
> Electrical and Computer Engineering
> Boston University
> 8 St. Mary St., Boston, MA, 02215
> 617.353.0286 (office) | 617.358.5917 (lab)
> [hidden email]
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