Re: thermal imaging through microscope

Posted by Tobias Baskin on
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Kathy,
          In case you have not seen this, there are people who are
developing ratiometric fluorescence reporters for temperature. For
example: Citation: Nakano M, Arai Y, Kotera I, Okabe K, Kamei Y, Nagai T
(2017) Genetically encoded ratiometric fluorescent thermometer with wide
range and rapid response. PLoS ONE 12(2): e0172344.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0172344
      I have no experience with these things, just heard about them and
they seem cool. FYI.

     Tobias

On 10/12/18 2:16 PM, Kathryn Spencer wrote:

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> Hi;
>                  I'm looking for suggestions and equipment to do thermal imaging through a microscope. We want to image C. elegans to look at their body temperature under different metabolic conditions. While I know they are poikilotherms, we believe they will show a difference to their local background under these conditions. Can you recommend a decent camera for thermal imaging? Are there IR cutoff filters or optics that will not transmit IR wavelengths in a basic fluorescence-type microscope (needed for worm-sized resolution ~10x mag)?
>                  Thanks in advance.
>                  Kathy Spencer
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