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References

If you use FLIMKit in published work, please also cite the relevant dependencies where appropriate:

Lifetime distribution fitting - theoretical basis for Gaussian and Lorentzian α(τ) models:

Lakowicz, J.R. (2006). Principles of Fluorescence Spectroscopy (3rd ed.). Springer. §4.11.2 (Lifetime Distributions), pp. 141-144.

PhasorPy - phasor computation, calibration, and cursor analysis:

Gohlke, C. et al. PhasorPy. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13862586

ptufile / sdtfile / lfdfiles / tifffile - instrument file decoding for PicoQuant .ptu, Becker & Hickl .sdt, the SimFCS and ISS formats, and TIFF:

Gohlke, C. https://github.com/cgohlke/ptufile, https://github.com/cgohlke/sdtfile, https://github.com/cgohlke/lfdfiles, https://github.com/cgohlke/tifffile

photonsfile - Photonscore LINCam .photons (D7) decoding:

Hunt, A. and A. Akram. photonsfile. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21360199

Tile stitching - phase-correlation registration algorithm:

Preibisch, S., Saalfeld, S. and Tomancak, P. (2009). Globally optimal stitching of tiled 3D microscopic image acquisitions. Bioinformatics 25(11), 1463-1465. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btp184

Cellpose-SAM - cell segmentation model used for masking:

Pachitariu, M. and Stringer, C. (2025). Cellpose-SAM: segment anything in microscopy images. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.28.651001