Methods for Reducing the Effects of Background Autofluorescence Using IVIS

Introduction The ability to track fluorescent proteins, dyes, quantum dots, and other fluorescent reporters in vivo is a rapidly growing technology known as molecular imaging. The IVIS Imaging Systems developed at Xenogen are optimized for imaging both bioluminescent and fluorescent reporters in vivo. Fluorescence equipment is standard on the IVIS Imaging System 200 Series while the IVIS Imaging System 100 or 50 Series is available with the XFO-12 Fluorescence Option. Table 1 summarizes the standard four fluorescent filter sets raging from the green to the near infrared (NIR).