Autoregressive-Model-Based Fluorescence-Lifetime Measurements by Phase-Modulation Fluorometry Using a Pulsed-Excitation Light Source and a High-Gain Photomultiplier Tube
Applied Spectroscopy, Vol. 63, Issue 11, pp. 1256-1261
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Tetsuo Iwata, Ritsuki Ito, Yasuhiro Mizutani, and Tsutomu Araki, "Autoregressive-Model-Based Fluorescence-Lifetime Measurements by Phase-Modulation Fluorometry Using a Pulsed-Excitation Light Source and a High-Gain Photomultiplier Tube," Appl. Spectrosc. 63, 1256-1261 (2009)
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We propose a novel method for measuring fluorescence lifetimes by use of a pulsed-excitation light source and an ordinary or a high-gain photomultiplier tube (PMT) with a high-load resistor. In order to obtain the values of fluorescence lifetimes, we adopt a normal data-processing procedure used in phase-modulation fluorometry. We apply an autoregressive (AR)-model-based data-analysis technique to fluorescence- and reference-response time-series data obtained from the PMT in order to derive plural values of phase differences at a repetition frequency of the pulsed-excitation light source and its harmonic ones. The connection of the high-load resistor enhances sensitivity in signal detection in a certain condition. Introduction of the AR-model-based data-analysis technique improves precision in estimating the values of fluorescence lifetimes. Depending on the value of the load resistor and that of the repetition frequency, plural values of fluorescence lifetimes are obtained at one time by utilizing the phase information of harmonic frequencies. Because the proposed measurement system is simple to construct, it might be effective when we need to know approximate values of fluorescence lifetimes readily, such as in the field of biochemistry for a screening purpose.
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