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Acknowledgements

FLIMKit is designed, developed, and maintained by Alex Hunt. Anthropic's Claude AI was used as an assistant for parts of the GUI implementation, the add-on system, compiled app builds, code debugging, and Docker packaging; all scientific design, fitting/phasor methods, validation, and the overall architecture are the author's own work.

FLIMKit reads several instrument formats. PicoQuant .ptu and Becker & Hickl .sdt reading is delegated to Christoph Gohlke's ptufile and sdtfile libraries, the SimFCS (.b&h, .bhz, .ref, .r64) and ISS (.ifli, .iss-tdflim) formats to his lfdfiles, and all TIFF reading, including ImSpector FLIM TIFF and PhasorPy OME-TIFF, to his tifffile; thank you to Christoph Gohlke for maintaining them, and for PhasorPy, which FLIMKit uses as its phasor backbone. Photonscore .photons reading is delegated to photonsfile, which was written for FLIMKit and spun out as a standalone library so it can be used without FLIMKit. Per-format provenance is in each reader's NOTICE.md (flimkit/formats/<FORMAT>/NOTICE.md).