TY - JOUR A1 - Khadem, S. M. J. A1 - Hille, Carsten A1 - Löhmannsröben, Hans-Gerd A1 - Sokolov, Igor M. T1 - Spot variation fluorescence correlation spectroscopy by data post-processing JF - Scientific reports N2 - Spot variation fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (SV-FCS) is a variant of the FCS techniques which may give useful information about the structural organisation of the medium in which the diffusion takes place. We show that the same results can be obtained by post-processing the photon count data from ordinary FCS measurements. By using this method, one obtains the fluorescence autocorrelation functions for sizes of confocal volume, which are effectively smaller than that of the initial FCS measurement. The photon counts of the initial experiment are first transformed into smooth intensity trace using kernel smoothing method or to a piecewise-continuous intensity trace using binning and then a non-linear transformation is applied to this trace. The result of this transformation mimics the photon count rate in an experiment performed with a smaller confocal volume. The applicability of the method is established in extensive numerical simulations and directly supported in in-vitro experiments. The procedure is then applied to the diffusion of AlexaFluor647-labeled streptavidin in living cells. Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-05672-8 SN - 2045-2322 VL - 7 SP - 1 EP - 9 PB - Nature Publ. Group CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Klauß, André A1 - Conrad, Florian A1 - Hille, Carsten T1 - Binary phase masks for easy system alignment and basic aberration sensing with spatial light modulators in STED microscopy JF - Scientific reports Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-15967-5 SN - 2045-2322 VL - 7 PB - Nature Publ. Group CY - London ER -