Quenching biomedical applications

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In the presence of quenching, the fluorescence decay functions remain singleexponential as long as the quenching efficiency is the same for all fluorophore molecules. In biomedical applications the local environment of the fluorophore is, however, nonhomogeneous. Therefore the fluorescence decay functions in biological systems are usually multiexponential. 

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