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Complementarily, near-infrared fluorescence (NIR) imaging provided real-time qualitative visualization of ERPP-Cy5.5 tissue distribution, corroborating the organ-level accumulation pattern observed in the quantitative study. Excretion studies over a 24 h observation window indicated that ERPP was primarily excreted via feces, with 45.7 \u00b1 4.4% of the recovered dose within this period; the complete excretion profile warrants further investigation at extended time points. 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