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Published in final edited form as: Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc. 2003 Sep;59(11):2611–2617. doi: 10.1016/s1386-1425(03)00015-5

Table 1.

Analysis of the intensity decay of ICG–HSA measured using the reverse start-stop time-correlated single photon counting technique and the multi-exponential model

Sample

α_i

τ_i(ns)

f_i

τ̄ (ns)

〈τ〉(ns)

χ_{R}^{2}

In buffer

0.158

0.190

0.05

–

0.842

0.615

0.95

0.592

0.548

1.4

On glass

0.683

0.155

0.325

–

0.317

0.691

0.675

0.517

0.325

1.3

On Au colloids

0.739

0.117

0.359

–

––

0.261

0.592

0.641

0.421

0.241

1.8