July 2012 Features
In Vivo Studies Promise to Advance Diagnosis
Techniques that leave cell systems and organisms intact could provide a means to screen whole popula...
From Waveform to Form Factor: Designing Laser-Based Medical Devices Has an Aesthetic All Its Own
When is a medical device a useful piece of equipment, and when is it an art form, pleasing to the ey...
Superresolution Microscopy Images Neurons on the Nanoscale
Recent advances allow superresolution microscopy to deliver on its promise of using focused light to...
Photocoagulation Refinements Are Decimating Birthmarks
(but Improving Birth Outcomes)
Precisely applied heat from the touch of a laser not only can hide blemishes, but can also save live...
RapidScan
Investing in physics will help medicine grow
Physics has contributed so much to medicine that list-making is nearly impossible – there&rsqu...
Laser Operations LLC
Laser diode manufacturer Laser Operations LLC of Sylmar, Calif., has expanded its sales organization...
Toshiba Imaging Systems Div.
Toshiba Imaging Systems Div. of Irvine, Calif., is collaborating with ISee3D Inc. of Vancouver, Brit...
CAO Group Inc.
CAO Group Inc. of West Jordan, Utah, has filed a lawsuit in US District Court against dental laser c...
BiOptix Diagnostics Corp.
To promote its expansion into the surface plasmon resonance marketplace, the privately held BiOptix ...
Hologenix LLC
Hologenix LLC, maker of the therapeutic Celliant textile technology, has completed its science advis...
M Squared Lasers
M Squared Lasers of Glasgow, UK, has received £3.85 million (about $6.2 million) of growth cap...
Fluoptics
To market and sell its technology for preclinical in vivo fluorescence imaging, Fluoptics of Grenobl...
Abbott Laboratories
Abbott Laboratories of Abbott Park, Ill., has announced that its iFS advanced femtosecond laser has ...
Schneider Kreuznach
With almost 100 years of optical design experience, Schneider Kreuznach of Bad Kreuznach, Germany, h...
Precision Optics Corp. Inc. (POC)
Optical instruments manufacturer Precision Optics Corp. Inc. (POC) of Gardner, Mass., has received a...
Modulight Inc.
Laser manufacturer Modulight Inc. of Tampere, Finland, has designed, integrated and CE-certified an ...
Hamamatsu Corp.
Hamamatsu Corp.’s NanoZoomer product line, previously distributed through third-party dealers,...
Idex Corp.
Sales in Idex Corp.’s Health and Science Technologies segment, which includes its Optics and P...
BioScan
Random laser enables speckle-free imaging
A random laser illumination source that uses multiple spatial modes to mitigate noise could generate...
Aberrations eliminated after the fact
A computational software technique that corrects optical tomography aberrations after images have be...
Tiny spectrometer evaluates food quality
An inexpensive spectrometer about 30 percent smaller than a sugar cube could soon help shoppers dete...
Lasers can improve hearing
New technologies to improve the insertion techniques and exact fitting of cochlear implants in the i...
Nanoparticle-laser method targets chemo drugs
A potential treatment method for drug-resistant cancer uses gold nanoparticles to convert laser ener...
Optical technique detects malaria early
Rapid detection of malaria, particularly in remote parts of the world, is not always possible becaus...
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