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Wide-field fluorescence lifetime imaging of single molecules with a gated single-photon camera

Ronceray, Nathan  
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Bennani, Salim
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Mitsioni, Marianna Fanouria  
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December 1, 2025
Light: Science and Applications

Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) is a powerful tool to discriminate fluorescent molecules or probe their nanoscale environment. Traditionally, FLIM uses time-correlated single-photon counting (TCSPC), which is precise but intrinsically low-throughput due to its dependence on point detectors. Although time-gated cameras have demonstrated the potential for high-throughput FLIM in bright samples with dense labeling, their use in single-molecule microscopy has not been explored extensively. Here, we report fast and accurate single-molecule FLIM with a commercial time-gated single-photon camera. Our optimized acquisition scheme achieves single-molecule lifetime measurements with a precision only about three times less than TCSPC, while imaging with a large number of pixels (512 × 512) allowing for the spatial multiplexing of over 3000 molecules. With this approach, we demonstrate parallelized lifetime measurements of large numbers of labeled pore-forming proteins on supported lipid bilayers, and temporal single-molecule Förster resonance energy transfer measurements at 5-25 Hz. This method holds considerable promise for the advancement of multi-target single-molecule localization microscopy and biopolymer sequencing.

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DOI
10.1038/s41377-025-01901-2
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-105012545603

PubMed ID

40754532

Author(s)
Ronceray, Nathan  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Bennani, Salim

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Mitsioni, Marianna Fanouria  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Siegel, Nicole

University of Fribourg

Marcaida, Maria J.

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Bruschini, Claudio  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Charbon, Edoardo  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Roy, Rahul

Indian Institute of Science

Dal Peraro, Matteo  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Acuna, Guillermo P.

University of Fribourg

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Date Issued

2025-12-01

Published in
Light: Science and Applications
Volume

14

Issue

1

Article Number

258

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Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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UPDALPE  
FunderFunding(s)Grant NumberGrant URL

EPFL Center for Imaging

National Center of Competence in Research Bio-Inspired Materials

European Research Council

101020445

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August 20, 2025
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