“…1 Also, this quantity is sensitive to many environmental factors such as temperature, pH, viscosity, ionic concentration, oxygen saturation, and influenced by bonds or molecular associations. [2][3][4] Because of these characteristics, fluorescence lifetime imaging microscope (FLIM) provides high contrast in studies of various diseases, including arthritis, atherosclerosis, and cancer when imaging tissue autofluorescence. 5,6 In particular, the major current application of FLIM in the local fluorophore environment is the detection of Föster resonant energy transfer (FRET) between molecules.…”