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    Detectors & Imaging

    CMOS camera images low-light signals for extended time periods

    LFW Staff
    Jan. 13, 2024
    The Retiga E9 scientific camera features a 9 Mpixel CMOS sensor.
    (Image credit: Ji-Xin Cheng’s Lab, Boston University)
    Bio&Life Sciences

    Next-level virus detection via WIDE-MIP microscopy

    Justine Murphy
    Dec. 4, 2023
    Rapid and accurate detection of a virus can quite literally make the difference between life and death. With this in mind, researchers created a mid-infrared photothermal microscope...
    Bio&Life Sciences

    FLIM camera system features a SPAD detector

    LFW Staff
    Nov. 27, 2023
    LIFA vTAU is a camera-based system for fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM), particularly live cell applications, with up to 100 lifetime images/sec.
    (Courtesy of Tian Xia and Irina V. Larina, Baylor College of Medicine)
    Bio&Life Sciences

    OCT-based approach examines human physiology

    Justine Murphy
    Nov. 21, 2023
    A unique imaging technique could provide a deeper understanding of human physiological processes such as the female reproductive system.
    Iss
    Bio&Life Sciences

    Spectral detector enables fast spectral FLIM data acquisition

    LFW Staff
    Nov. 9, 2023
    The Parallel 16-PMT Spectra FastFLIM is a time-resolved spectral detector with parallel 16-channel digital frequency-domain fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) readouts.
    Mks Spectra Physics
    Lasers & Sources

    UV laser has utility in bioinstrumentation

    LFW Staff
    Sept. 10, 2023
    The Vanguard One UV125 quasi-continuous-wave (QCW) laser delivers >125 mW of UV power.
    Canon Medical Components
    Bio&Life Sciences

    Wireless flat-panel detectors suited for mobile applications

    LFW Staff
    Aug. 13, 2023
    CXDI-Elite FPDs are available in three sizes: 14 × 17, 11 × 14, and 17 × 17 in., all under 6 lbs. with the battery.
    Omnivision
    Bio&Life Sciences

    Medical-grade cable module designed for single-use endoscopes

    LFW Staff
    July 26, 2023
    The OVMed OCHTA medical-grade cable module connects 400 × 400 resolution imagers to single-use endoscopes.
    (Courtesy of Yuhyun Ji, Purdue University)
    A potential mHealth application is for noninvasive blood hemoglobin quantification and oxygen saturation levels. The easily accessible inner eyelid (palpebral conjunctiva) is used as a sensing site (inset).
    Bio&Life Sciences

    Turn smartphones into mobile healthcare tools

    Justine Murphy
    July 21, 2023
    Healthcare represents a world of opportunity for smartphones when complementing hyperspectral imaging techniques with an AI-based algorithm.