Can we use rapid lifetime determination for fast, fluorescence lifetime based, metabolic imaging? Precision and accuracy of double-exponential decay measurements with low total counts

• Susana Figueiredo Silva ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Susana Figueiredo Silva, José Paulo Domingues, António Miguel Morgado

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation CIBIT—Coimbra Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Translational Research/INCAS—Institute of Nuclear Sciences Applied to Health, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

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• José Paulo Domingues ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Susana Figueiredo Silva, José Paulo Domingues, António Miguel Morgado

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations CIBIT—Coimbra Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Translational Research/INCAS—Institute of Nuclear Sciences Applied to Health, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

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• António Miguel Morgado

  Contributed equally to this work with: Susana Figueiredo Silva, José Paulo Domingues, António Miguel Morgado

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: miguelmorgado@uc.pt

  Affiliations CIBIT—Coimbra Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Translational Research/INCAS—Institute of Nuclear Sciences Applied to Health, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9455-1206

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