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Methods to generate total internal reflection. (A) Prism coupling for TIRF microscopy and (B) TIRF via a very high numerical aperture objective. Excitation light is shown as a dark blue line traveling along the over edge of the objective while the emitted light from the sample fluorophore is shown traveling down through the objective in green.
