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From Fast Fluorescence Imaging to Molecular Diffusion Law on Live Cell Membranes in a Commercial Microscope
Published on: October 9, 2014
A fresh look at the validity of the diffusion approximation for modeling fluorescence spectroscopy in biological
Chintha Chamalie Handapangoda1, Malin Premaratne, Saeid Nahavandi
1Centre for Intelligent Systems Research, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria 3217, Australia. chinthah@gmail.com
Abstract:
Fluorescence has become a widely used technique for applications in noninvasive diagnostic tissue spectroscopy. The standard model used for characterizing fluorescence photon transport in biological tissue is based on the diffusion approximation. On the premise that the total energy of excitation and fluorescent photon flows must be conserved, we derive the widely used diffusion equations in fluorescence spectroscopy and show that there must be an additional term to account for the transport of fluorescent photons. The significance of this additional term in modeling fluorescence spectroscopy in biological tissue is assessed.
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