Table 1 Candidate fluorophores with fluorescence emission ~505–526 nm
From: Fluorescence multispectral imaging-based diagnostic system for atherosclerosis
Fluorophores | Group | Excitation (nm) | Spectral characteristic (nm) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Emission range | Emission maxima | |||
Ceroid | Ramanujam [9] | 340–395 | 430–460, 540 | 540 |
Richards-Kortum & Sevick-Muraca [10] | 340–395 | 430–540, 540–640 | 640 | |
Collagen | Richards-Kortum & Sevick-Muraca [10] | 450 | – | 530 |
Elastin | Richards-Kortum & Sevick-Muraca [10] | 410 | – | 500 |
Kollias et al. [11] | 420, 460 | – | 500, 540 | |
FAD | Ramanujam [9] | 450 | – | 535 |
Richards-Kortum & Sevick-Muraca [10] | 450 | – | 515 | |
Vo-Dinh [12] | 440 | – | 520 | |
Zheng et al. [13] | 410, 440 | – | 520 | |
Bachmann et al. [14] | 450 | – | 535 | |
NADH | Wu & Qu [15] | 405 | 490–520 | – |
β-Carotene | Andersson-Engels et al. [16] | 377 | 400–700 | 520 |
Kandori et al. [17] | 425 | – | 513 | |