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[Fluorescence spectral characteristics of human blood and its endogenous fluorophores]
Bu-Hong Li1, Zhen-Xi Zhang, Shu-Sen Xie
1Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China.
Abstract:
The three-dimensional fluorescence spectra and excitation-emission matrix of human blood were measured, and an attempt was made to exploit the endogenous fluorophores of major peaks in the UV and visible. The result indicates that the absorption peaks of human blood appear at 274, 345, 415, 541 and 576 nm. Based on the analysis of fluorescence excitation-emission matrix, the major emission peaks of human blood occur at excitation-emission wavelength pairs of 260-630, 280-340, 340-460 and 450-520 nm, which are attributed to endogenous porphyrins, tryptophan, reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) or reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH), and flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD), respectively. These results can be used to analyze and explain the effect of blood on the distortion of fluorescence signal of human tissues for optical diagnosis.
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