= Quickly Assessing Fluorescence Bleaching in LSM700 Microscopes with ZEN and Fiji=
== Protocol ==
=== Initial Settings ===
- On the LSM700, make sure you have all settings (Laser, Gain, Pixel Size, Speed) ready
- Do not use averaging or Z stacks
=== Prepare for acquisition ===
- Using the "Regions" tool in ZEN, create a rectangle in a region of your image with signal
- In the Regions menu, uncheck "Bleach", but keep "Acquisition" & "Analysis"
- Check "Use bounding rectangle blablabla"
- Check "Time Series"
- Use 100 timepoints (or more if you want)
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=== Run Acquisition ===
- Use Start Experiment
- Switch to the "Mean ROI" tab on the left of the image
=== Copy the data and run the macro ===
- On the table, right click and select "Copy Data"
- Open Fiji and open the macro "Assess Bleaching.ijm" (Drag & Drop the file into Fiji)
- Run the macro. It will use the data that is currently on the Windows clipboard
=== See the results ===
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Message with number of frames before 50% of intensity is lost.
This is also reflected in a new line in a Table called Bleach Assessment
Finally, you can observe the plot to see if the exponential fit worked