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. 2012 Nov 1;6(6):1242–1250. doi: 10.1177/193229681200600602

Table 1.

How Features of Light Can Affect Measurements of Fluorescent Lifetime and Spectroscopya

Features of incident light FL Spectroscopy
Fluctuations in incident light signal amplitude No Yes
Duration of incident light exposure No Yes
Fluorophore concentration No Yes
Fluorescence intensity No Yes
Emission spectrum No Yes
Light scattering by tissue No Yes
a

No, effect is absent; yes, effect is present.