Table 1 Fluorescence lifetime values for each fluorophore averaged across all excitation pulse durations and regions of interests.

From: The Impact of Compressed Femtosecond Laser Pulse Durations on Neuronal Tissue Used for Two-Photon Excitation Through an Endoscope

Tissue Type

NADH (ns)

FAD (ns)

Lipopigments (ns)

Porphyrin I (ns)

p-value

Healthy Cortex

1.40 ± 0.13

1.53 ± 0.13

1.60 ± 0.15

1.57 ± 0.095

0.81

GBM

1.92 ± 0.13

2.0 ± 0.06

2.0 ± 0.17

1.90 ± 0.079

0.97

Metastatic

1.89 ± 0.14

1.84 ± 0.230

2.02 ± 0.27

3.47 ± 0.012

0.29

Meningioma

1.63 ± 0.095

1.78 ± 0.095

1.92 ± 0.18

3.19 ± 0.67

0.50

  1. The p-values derived from one-way ANOVA analysis or paired t-test analysis of each fluorophore indicate that changing pulse durations did not result in changes in the individual fluorophore lifetimes.
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