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ArticleScientific reports2019

Refractive index of human red blood cells between 290 nm and 1100 nm determined by optical extinction measurements.

Jonas Gienger, Kathrin Smuda, Ralph Müller, Markus Bär, Jörg Neukammer

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Article in Scientific reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jonas GiengerPhysikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Abbestraße 2-12, 10587, Berlin, Germany. jonas.gienger@ptb.de.ORCID 0000-0003-1080-8874
Kathrin SmudaPhysikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Abbestraße 2-12, 10587, Berlin, Germany.
Ralph MüllerPhysikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Abbestraße 2-12, 10587, Berlin, Germany.
Markus BärPhysikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Abbestraße 2-12, 10587, Berlin, Germany.
Jörg NeukammerPhysikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Abbestraße 2-12, 10587, Berlin, Germany.
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The knowledge of optical properties of biological cells is essential to interpret their interaction with light and to derive morphological information and parameters associated with cell function like the oxygen transport capacity of human red blood cells (RBCs). We present a method to determine the dependence between the refractive index (RI) of human RBCs and their intracellular hemoglobin (Hb) concentration from spectral extinction measurements of a cell suspension. The procedure is based on the analysis of the corresponding ensemble averaged extinction cross section [Formula: see text]. Thus far two complementary approaches have been taken to derive RIs of RBCs. The first one uses homogeneous macroscopic samples prepared by hemolysis for the destruction of the RBCs' membranes and subsequent centrifugation. A second approach is the determination of RIs of single intact cells by microscopic investigation. These techniques are limited to a few discrete wavelengths or a rather narrow wavelength range. In addition most of these techniques require additional information about the concentration dependence. In contrast, our approach yields the RI increment with Hb concentration of intact, reversibly isovolumetrically sphered, oxygenated RBCs over a wide wavelength range from 290 nm to 1100 nm from macroscopic measurements.

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Erythrocyte CountErythrocytesHemolysisHumansLightRefractometry

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PMID30874567
PMCPMC6420646
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