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A method based on quenched references and global analysis was used to deconvolute timeresolved single photon counting data. The results from both computer simulated data and real experiments showed that highly accurate and reliable deconvolutions were possible. Fluorescence lifetimes and Stern-Volmer quenching constants for quenching with NaI were determined for the reference substances para-terphenyl, PPO (2,5-diphenyloxazol), POPOP (1,4-bis-(5-phenyl-2-oxazolyl)-benzene), and dimethyl-POPOP, all in ethanol. The fluorescence from a mixture of POPOP, anthracene, and diphenylanthracene in ethanol at different wavelengths was successfully resolved into the known relative contributions from the species at each wavelength. Fluorescence intensity decays of tryptophan in solution were studied at different wavelengths and globally analyzed with the method. Also, fluorescence anisotropy described by isotropic and anisotropic rotations in homogeneous and heterogeneous emitting systems were simulated and successfully deconvoluted. The method was applied to real fluorescence anisotropy data of diphenylanthracene and POPOP in paraffin oil, as well as to data from experiments on the blue copper-containing protein stellacyanin and its apo-form. In these cases, the method both corrected for errors due to, for example, the wavelength-dependent transit-times in the photomultiplier, and realized global deconvolutions of the total, parallel, and perpendicular components of the fluorescence. General algorithms for arbitrary fluorescence impulse responses are given.
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Löfroth, J.E. Deconvolution of single photon counting data with a reference method and global analysis. Eur Biophys J 13, 45–58 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00266309
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