It is obvious that biophotonic emission rate depends on various factors like age, growth factor, etc etc and the question may seem a little vague.
But I would like to know
#1: what would be the average biophotonic emission rate of a single human cell? I am mentioning it to be average, so as to temporarily compromise on the various sizes of cells in human body
#2: Available literatures broadly classify the spectral range to be 300 - 650 nm. Please let me know if data on spectrum is available on a single cell level.
Ram.
One credible answer for this question.
"Dear Ram Prasadh Narayanan,
Thanks for your question. There are no data on UPE for single human cell. Simply because spontaneous emission is too low from a human cell and for technical reasons not detectable.
Dr. Eduard van Wijk
Sino-Dutch Centre for Preventive and personalized Medicine/
Centre for Photonics of Living Systems
Leiden University"
With single-photon detectors becoming more widely used (for quantum computing etc.) perhaps such a measurement can be taken in the near future - certainly would be an interesting result. Taking a spectrum at the few (hundreds?) of cell level would be even more time consuming, but again really interesting to publish.
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