Document Type

Article

Original Publication Date

1997

Journal/Book/Conference Title

The Biophysical Journal

Volume

73

Issue

1

First Page

452

Last Page

465

DOI of Original Publication

10.1016/S0006-3495(97)78084-6

Comments

Originally published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0006-3495(97)78084-6

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Date of Submission

February 2015

Abstract

ABSTRACT

A continuous distribution approach, instead of the traditional mono- and multiexponential analysis, for determining quencher concentration in a heterogeneous system has been developed. A mathematical model of phosphorescence decay inside a volume with homogeneous concentration of phosphor and heterogeneous concentration of quencher was formulated to obtain pulse-response fitting functions for four different distributions of quencher concentration: rectangular, normal (Gaussian), gamma, and multimodal. The analysis was applied to parameter estimates of a heterogeneous distribution of oxygen tension (P02) within a volume. Simulated phosphorescence decay data were randomly generated for different distributions and heterogeneity of PO2 inside the excitation/emission volume, consisting of 200 domains, and then fit with equations developed for the four models. Analysis using a monoexponential fit yielded a systematic error (underestimate) in mean P02 that increased with the degree of heterogeneity. The fitting procedures based on the continuous distribution approach returned more accurate values for parameters of the generated PO2 distribution than did the monoexponential fit. The parameters of the fit (M = mean; ar = standard deviation) were investigated as a function of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR = maximum signal amplitude/peak-to-peak noise). The best-fit parameter values were stable when SNR 2 20. All four fitting models returned accurate values of M and a for different P02 distributions. The ability of our procedures to resolve two different heterogeneous compartments was also demonstrated using a bimodal fitting model. An approximate scheme was formulated to allow calculation of the first moments of a spatial distribution of quencher without specifying the distribution. In addition, a procedure for the recovery of a histogram, representing the quencher concentration distribution, was developed and successfully tested.

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From The Biophysical Journal, Golub, A.S., Popel, A.S., Zheng, L., et al., Analysis of phosphorescence in heterogeneous systems using distributions of quencher concentration, Vol. 73, Page 452. Copyright © 1997 The Biophysical Society. Published by Elsevier Inc. Reprinted with permission.

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