The effect of the track length on the accuracy of the diffusion coefficient in MSD measurements
- source: @ernst2013 Measuring a diffusion coefficient by single-particle tracking: statistical analysis of experimental mean squared displacement curves
- tags: #errors-nanoparticle-tracking-analysis
The mean squared displacement of a particle’s trajectory can be useful to calculate its diffusion coefficient. The following equation:
Can be used to extract the diffusion coefficient. Longer tracks should yield more accurate results, but the impact on track length is hard to quantify. Therefore, if the same particle is tracked over
The figure above shows the uncertainty in the determination of the diffusion coefficient for different track lengths. The extration was done using the optimal number of time-delays (see:
literature/202111291731 mean squared displacement errors
). For
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