Mean fluorescence lifetime and its error

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• 作者：Eva Fi&scaron ; erová ; ^a ; ¹ ; Martin Kubala^b ; ¹ ; ^{mkubala@prfnw.upol.cz}
• 关键词：Fluorescence ; Mean lifetime ; Error ; Confidence interval ; TCSPC ; Histogram
• 刊名：Journal of Luminescence
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：54_00222313
• 类别：ch
• 出版时间：August, 2012
• 卷：132
• 期：8
• 页码：2059-2064
• 文件大小：284 K

摘要

Mean excited-state lifetime is one of the fundamental fluorescence characteristics and enters as an important parameter into numerous calculations characterizing molecular interactions, such as e.g. FRET or fluorescence quenching. Our experiments demonstrated that the intensity-weighted mean fluorescence lifetime is very robust characteristic, in contrast to the amplitude-weighted one, which value is dependent on the data quality and particularly on the used fitting model. For the first time, we also report the procedure for the error estimation for both the intensity- and amplitude-weighted mean fluorescence lifetimes. Furthermore, we present a method for estimation of the mean fluorescence lifetime directly from the fluorescence-decay curve recorded by TCSPC (Time-Correlated Single-Photon Counting) method. For its simplicity and low computational demands, it could be a useful tool in the high-throughput applications, such as FACS, FLIM-FRET or HPLC detectors.