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Full steam ahead with the fastest camera in the world

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David L. Shenkenberg, [email protected]

Some biological events happen so quickly that ordinary cameras simply miss those crucial shots – of neurons firing, proteins moving and lasers performing surgery, just to name a few. Shimadzu Corp.’s HPV-1 is perhaps the fastest commercially available CCD camera in the world, capturing images at a rate of 1 million frames per second. However, it relies on high-power illumination to achieve reasonable sensitivity at those speeds, and high-power illumination can damage biological samples. The Fesca-200 streak camera from Hamamatsu is very fast but can take pictures only of...Read full article

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    Published: July 2009
    biologicalBiophotonicscamerasCCDFeaturesMicroscopySensors & Detectors

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