Spectral imaging basic principle

Basic principles and applications of time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy have been outlined in a very illustrative way by Valeur [16]. Although punctiform spectroscopy is still the best way to get a detailed knowledge of all the important parameters that characterize fluorescence emission (exact spectral properties, decay time behavior, polarization), imaging is always preferred whenever the localization of the distribution of any biomolecule of interest is required or a great number of samples have to be analyzed [22]. 

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