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    Thermo Fisher Scientific
    Detectors & Imaging

    FTIR microscope provides 5 µm IR resolution

    LFW Staff
    Sept. 14, 2023
    The Nicolet RaptIR+ advanced Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) microscope provides 1 µm visible resolution and 5 µm infrared (IR) resolution.
    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.
    (Courtesy of Lumicell)
    FIGURE 1. Lumicell’s LUMISIGHT optical imaging agent and direct visualization system assists surgeons in detecting residual cancer after surgery.
    Bio&Life Sciences

    Fluorescence imaging system may improve cancer care

    Justine Murphy
    June 12, 2023
    Currently under review by the U.S. FDA, a handheld imaging probe may help surgeons detect residual cancer after surgery via a contrast agent.
    (Courtesy of SMART)
    FIGURE 1. A 300 mm wafer (a); close-up of a chip die (b); infrared micrograph with the LED turned on (c); holographic microscope setup (d); and a reconstructed holographic image (e) compared with the ground truth (f).
    Lasers & Sources

    World’s smallest silicon LED enables nanoscale holographic microscope

    Justine Murphy
    June 2, 2023
    The world’s smallest silicon light-emitting diode (LED) and holographic microscope may soon bring more high-tech scientific functions to smartphone cameras.
    E Con Systems
    Detectors & Imaging

    Monochrome camera provides IR and near-IR sensitivity

    LFW Staff
    May 30, 2023
    The See3CAM_50CUGM Sony Pregius IMX264 global-shutter monochrome camera includes back-illuminated technology and a 3.45 µm pixel size.
    (Courtesy of Anna Maria Reuss, Fabian Voigt)
    Detailed image of neurons in a mouse brain, as captured using the Schmidt objectives.
    Bio&Life Sciences

    Schmidt telescope, scallop eyes transform microscope objectives

    Justine Murphy
    May 22, 2023
    Drawing inspiration from the uniqueness of scallop eyes, neuroscientists in Switzerland have developed microscope objectives that could make imaging samples simpler, cheaper, ...