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ReviewJournal of biophotonics2025

Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Techniques-A Review on Principles, Applications and Clinical Relevance.

V I Shcheslavskiy, M V Shirmanova, K S Yashin, A C Rück, M C Skala, W Becker

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Review in Journal of biophotonics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed.

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  17. Investigating Cellular Magnetic Bioeffects Using Two-Channel, Two-Photon Autofluorescence Lifetime Microscopy.IEEE transactions on molecular, biological, and multi-scale communications · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

V I ShcheslavskiyPrivolzhsky Research Medical University, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.ORCID 0000-0003-3253-8211
M V ShirmanovaPrivolzhsky Research Medical University, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
K S YashinPrivolzhsky Research Medical University, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
A C RückCentre for Biomedical Research, Microscopy/Neurology Group, University Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
M C SkalaMorgridge Institute for Research, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
W BeckerBecker&Hickl GmbH, Berlin, Germany.

Funding

Russian Science Foundation
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article gives an overview of the most frequently used fluorescence-lifetime imaging (FLIM) techniques, their capabilities, and typical applications. Starting from a general introduction to fluorescence and phosphorescence lifetime, we will show that the fluorescence lifetime or, more accurately, the fluorescence decay function of a fluorophore is a direct indicator of the interaction with its molecular environment. FLIM is therefore more than a simple contrast technique in microscopy-it is a technique of molecular imaging. FLIM techniques can be classified into time-domain and frequency-domain techniques, analogue and photon counting techniques, and scanning and wide-field techniques. Starting from an overview of these general technical principles we will describe the features and peculiarities of the different FLIM techniques in use. An extended section is dedicated to TCSPC FLIM, addressing unique capabilities that make the technique especially interesting to FLIM of biological systems.

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Optical ImagingAnimalsClinical RelevanceHumansTime Factorsfluorescence lifetime imagingmetabolic imagingoptical biopsyphosphorescence lifetime imagingtime‐correlated single photon counting

Identifiers

PMID39973086
PMCPMC12702647

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