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Kevin Braeckmans wrote:
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> Dear Aryeh,
> 
> That makes sense, thank you.
> 
> That also provides me with an answer to my second original question: with
> increasing FRET efficiency, the precision of the FLIM measurements will
> decrease since less and less photons coming from the FRETting donor
> molecules will be available (for a fixed observation time). It also follows
> that FLIM cannot measure (the theoretical case of) 100% FRET efficiency.
> 

In the event of 100% FRET efficiency (I should only be so lucky...) you might 
detect it due to a change in acceptor lifetime. The acceptor emission will be 
non-exponential, but on average, FRET excited acceptors should have longer 
emission times than directly excited acceptors.

As for acceptor photobleaching, 100% efficiency would be great, because the 
donor will be zero prebleach, and will go up to whatever postbleach. The limit 
will be how precisely you can measure the zero.

--aryeh
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Aryeh Weiss
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