Burenkov, I.
, Polyakov, S.
and Sabines Chesterking, J.
(2022),
In situ flow cytometer calibration and single-molecule resolution via quantum measurement, sensors mdpi, [online], https://doi.org/10.3390/s22031136.
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In situ flow cytometer calibration and single-molecule resolution via quantum measurement
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Fluorescent biomarkers are used to detect target molecules within inhomogeneous populations of cells. When these biomarkers are found in trace amounts it becomes extremely challenging to detect their presence in a flow cytometer. Here, we present a framework to draw a detection baseline for single emitters and enable absolute calibration of a flow cytometer based on quantum measurements. We use single-photon detection and find the second-order autocorrelation function of fluorescent light. We compute the success rate for rare event detection for different signal-to-noise ratios (SNR). We show high accuracy identification of the events with occurrence rates below 10^-5 even at modest SNR levels, enabling early disease diagnostics and post-disease monitoring.Citation
sensors mdpi
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22
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single molecule, flow cytometry
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