Copyright © LightForm Inc, 2011 LightForm Inc: PARISS® Analytical Spectral and Hyperspectral Imaging The PARISS Hyperspectral Fluorescence Imaging System Attaches to the Video Port of a Research Microscope. Typical Applications for Fluorescence Hyperspectral Imaging   • Characterize CFP/YFP FRET: with over 300 wavelength data points! A recent FRET paper included the surprising statement:     Quote: “While the biological implication for such protease activity we observed in some dying cells remains to be explored, these examples demonstrate the power of spectral imaging to monitor FRET. None of the other FRET measurement methods, including sensitized emission, acceptor recovery after photo-bleaching or donor fluorescent lifetime imaging (FLIM), can differentiate such situations.”[1] • Segment and delineate: Up to 15 fluorophores or chromophores simultaneously in fluorescence, luminescence, or brightfield • Fluorescent Nano-materials: Quantum Dots, nanowires, nanorods and nanoparticles • OLED: (Organic LED) using auto-fluorescence for defect characterization • Spectral "unmixing" algorithm: spectral waveform cross-correlation. Accommodates non-linear mixing The PARISS Fluorescence Hyperspectral Imaging      [1] "Detection of Real-Time Mitochondrial Caspase Activity, in Situ, in Live Cells", Yingpei Zhang, Catherine Haskins, Marisa Lopez-Cruzan, Jianhua Zhang, Victoria Centonze-Frohlich, Brian Herman; Microsc Microanal.; 10:442-8 (Aug 2004) Tissue section multiplexed with three highly overlapping fluorophores 5 micron beads multiplexed with 8 highly overlapping fluorophores