Imaging Steps

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The imaging in a FRAP experiment generally consists of 3 steps:

  1. The sample is first imaged at low intensity illumination in a prebleach series (usually about 10 images) to measure the fluorsecence equilibrium before disturbance.
  2. The second step is to bleach one or more spots or regions of interest (ROI) with high intensity illumination to disturb the fluorescence equilibrium.
  3. In the last imaging step a series of postbleach images is acquired to record the fluorescence recovery kinetics.

Finally several data evaluation steps reveal mobility-related parameters of the molecule of interest.

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