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Experimental modeling was carried out on phantoms of biological tissues simulating their scattering properties as well as accumulation of the investigated nanoparticles doped with rare earth ions. Measurements were performed using NaGdF4 nanoparticles doped with Yb3+, Er3+ and Tm3+ rare earth ions, which demonstrated several luminescence bands from the blue (475nm) to the near-infrared (800 nm) regions of the spectrum under 980 nm excitation. The different penetration depth of various wavelengths in biotissue allows us to estimate the depth from which the signal was obtained using luminescence intensity ratio (LIR). Due to non-linearity of upconversion process, pumping power dependences of luminescence intensity was taken into account. The number of involved photons for each spectral band was estimated and intensity ratio of emission bands was calculated. Based on calculations and experimental measurements, the theoretical and experimental luminescence intensity ratio for different depths was estimated. The experimental study was performed on biological tissue phantoms containing Lipofundin® with red blood cells and has shown good agreement with calculations. The use of theoretically calculated LIR allows us to solve the inverse problem and estimate the depth from which the signal was obtained. |
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