The Fluorescence Lifetime Plate Reader will be the first commercially available single modality plate reader based on the technique of time correlated single photon counting
While time correlated single photon counting (TCSPC) has been the established method of choice for high precision fluorescence lifetime measurements in photochemistry for many years, this technique is now increasingly used in the field of biological research.
This is for two reasons.
First, the requirement on quality and variety of data in biosciences is dramatically rising, and second, the high standard in electronic integration and ultra-fast pulsed semiconductor light sources - fundamental requirements for system integration - have only recently become available.
Edinburgh Instruments has worked on this project in collaboration with dye manufacturing, labelling, drug developing, and assay developing companies and institutions.
The system wsas undergoing stringent validation tests in November 2004 and would soon be commercially available.
