Light attenuation by tissue constitutes the major difficulty for ratiometric analysis of PPIs by a BRET system. Light attenuation varies with the wavelength of the emitted photons and the depth of the tissue, making the A/D (and ivBRET) a complex function of the emission spectra of the donor and acceptor and spatial localization of the reporter protein. Indeed, the A/Ds and consequently, the ivBRET ratios obtained with BRET6 and BRET6.1 were significantly higher in the mouse deep-tissue model than in cell culture, which is in agreement with lesser tissue attenuation of the light emitted at 640 nm (acceptor) than at 540 nm (donor). However, we have observed excellent consistency of the ivBRET ratio among different mice, showing that our lung cell-trapping model offers sufficient spatial control to retain the ratiometric characteristic of a BRET sensor. Furthermore, when calculating the turn-on ratios for the BRET systems (DRs), the signal attenuation factors cancel out (using the approximation that the attenuation coefficients are constant throughout the entire thorax area and are the same among mice), and these DR values should remain constant, independent of tissue depth. This hypothesis is confirmed by the similar DRs measured for the BRET systems in mice and cells. We observed that DR values obtained in cell culture and mice vary to some extent (although they are close in value), mostly because the DR correction is unable to account for all attenuation and scattering factors. For example, to calculate a dimensionless DR, we assumed that the attenuation coefficient is constant for all mice and identical over the entire thorax area; this approximation introduces a certain degree of inaccuracy in the calculated DR values. Nevertheless, the A/Ds used to calculated the DRs remained in a near margin of the error for different mice, and we show that they are independent of the number of reporter cells used (total light output), indicating that ratiometric measurements can be performed in deep tissues of mice. The DR method provides a depth-independent measure of the BRET signal; however, both donor and acceptor signals used to calculate the DRs decrease with tissue depth. To alleviate some of these tissue attenuation differences, one can further improve the BRET6 system by using both donor and acceptor proteins emitting at wavelengths >600 nm. This parameter could be realized, for example, by pairing the click beetle red luciferase (CBR; λem = 615 nm, D-luciferin) with the newly developed near-IR fluorescent protein eqFP670 (λex/em = 605/670 nm) (35).