# Fluorescence Imaging

## Why Fluorescence:

We can label what we want to see

[![image-1636117579202.jpg](https://www-app.igb.illinois.edu/core-docs/uploads/images/gallery/2021-11/scaled-1680-/image-1636117579202.jpg)](https://www-app.igb.illinois.edu/core-docs/uploads/images/gallery/2021-11/image-1636117579202.jpg)

## Excitation and Emission

Dapi

[![image-1636116484648.png](https://www-app.igb.illinois.edu/core-docs/uploads/images/gallery/2021-11/scaled-1680-/image-1636116484648.png)](https://www-app.igb.illinois.edu/core-docs/uploads/images/gallery/2021-11/image-1636116484648.png)

[![image-1636117001582.jpg](https://www-app.igb.illinois.edu/core-docs/uploads/images/gallery/2021-11/scaled-1680-/image-1636117001582.jpg)](https://www-app.igb.illinois.edu/core-docs/uploads/images/gallery/2021-11/image-1636117001582.jpg)

[![image-1636117827645.jpg](https://www-app.igb.illinois.edu/core-docs/uploads/images/gallery/2021-11/scaled-1680-/image-1636117827645.jpg)](https://www-app.igb.illinois.edu/core-docs/uploads/images/gallery/2021-11/image-1636117827645.jpg)

[![image-1636117230797.jpg](https://www-app.igb.illinois.edu/core-docs/uploads/images/gallery/2021-11/scaled-1680-/image-1636117230797.jpg)](https://www-app.igb.illinois.edu/core-docs/uploads/images/gallery/2021-11/image-1636117230797.jpg)

Widefield vs Confocal

[![image-1663333708653.png](https://www-app.igb.illinois.edu/core-docs/uploads/images/gallery/2022-09/scaled-1680-/image-1663333708653.png)](https://www-app.igb.illinois.edu/core-docs/uploads/images/gallery/2022-09/image-1663333708653.png)

[https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/689588](https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/689588)