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Thanks for a very useful plugin.
Unless I have overlooked it, there is currently just one way to export the metadata present in the original PTU files, which is to open up the Console window and copy/paste the relevant information in a separate file. This becomes cumbersome as soon as one imports more than one PTU file, as their metadata is appended to the console output (together with any intermediate ImageJ message, if any.
One suggestion would be to create a CSV file-ready tabulated output of the corresponding information, as done for instance by the Bio-Formats Importer plugin, which creates a separate "Original Metadata - File Name" tabulated representation of SDT file metadata (Becker & Hickl hardware equivalent of the PicoQuant PTU file format).
This makes it convenient to save that file as a CSV file right after importing a FLIM stack, saving it as a folder of image, and before importing a new one.