Fluorescence depolarization in a scattering medium: Effect of size parameter of a scatterer
- 23 January 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review E
- Vol. 65 (2) , 026608
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.65.026608
Abstract
For a monodisperse scattering medium, we investigate the dependence on scatterer size parameter for the change in anisotropy of fluorescence due to single scattering at excitation or emission wavelength. The value for the ratio of the anisotropy of fluorescence after one scattering at excitation or emission wavelength to the initial value was observed to increase with increasing value of scatterer size parameter. The effect of multiple scattering on anisotropy of fluorescence from fluorophores embedded in a scattering medium was incorporated using a photon migration model. The model was validated by experiments carried out on samples with known concentration of polystyrene microspheres as scatterers and riboflavins or reduced form of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide as fluorophores.Keywords
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