Precision Optics Ships Autoclavable Endoscopes, Wins Orders for Stereo Endoscope

Most people know the heart pumps blood to the body, but they may not realize that the blood that fills the four chambers of the heart provides no sustenance to the myocardium, or the heart muscle,...

Extreme precision is required to surgically remove a cancerous tumor without damaging the surrounding healthy tissue. Yet surgeons often must rely on their eyes and hands to determine where to cut....

Confocal and multiphoton microscopy are commonly used to provide 3D-resolved images of in vitro or in vivo tissue samples without physical sectioning. But there are also inherent trade-offs in the...

A limitation to conventional microscopy imaging, in which a sample is usually squeezed onto a glass slide, is that the behavior of the cells may differ from their natural environment. Further, the...

The CICERO system from CrestOptics is an all-in-one solution for widefield and confocal imaging, offering integration into existing workflows with configuration flexibility enabling a broad range of...

The P-725.1CDE1S and P-725.4CDE1S from PI are nano-focus scanner packages for applications including surface metrology, super-resolution microscopy, light sheet microscopy, and digital slide scanning...

The Model TR.L1 from Titan Tool Supply, Inc. is a specialized 16-LED ring illuminator designed for industrial microscopy applications, including modular toolscopes. With a robust aluminum...

The Triton™ SWIR IP67-rated 1.3- and 0.3-MP cameras from LUCID Vision Labs Inc. are compact, cost-efficient devices featuring Sony SenSWIR InGaAs sensors. The GigE Power over Ethernet...

Laser development for the microscopy market continues to be driven by key trends in applications, which currently include superresolution techniques, multiphoton applications in optogenetics and...

NSOM is suitable for studies on the mesoscopic scale (several tens to hundreds of molecular dimensions). It has become an important tool in research and applications of semiconductors, organic layers...

As recently as five years ago, shopping for a microscope light source was fairly straightforward. For routine applications, it was tungsten halogen, typically 100 W, while for fluorescence, it was an...

An interferometer is an instrument that compares the position or surface structure of two objects. The basic two-beam division of amplitude interferometer components consists of a light source, a...

How to achieve high-performance 7-channel multiplex imaging, with Kromnigon’s multiband filter technology and CoolLED’s precision-controlled LED illumination.

A clever way to overcome the limitation caused by diffraction is to use 'pointillism strategy', a concept introduced by Rainer Heintzmann in 2005. The idea is to have only one fluorescent emitter...

A resonant probe atomic force microscope (AFM) offers capabilities and benefits not found in commonly used optical deflection AFMs in the measurement of physical constants, physical properties, and...

MKS Newport's ODiate Fluorescence Filter Sets Datasheet, featuring imaging filter sets for the following fluorophores: DAPI, GFP, FITC, TRITC, mCherry and Cy5.

The composition of pharmaceutical tablets and the distribution of the ingredients therein can be determined using chemical imaging performed by vibrational microscopy. Doing so provides valuable...

Ultrafast lasers are being increasingly used in life science imaging techniques such as multiphoton microscopy. However, the short pulse durations and high peak powers of ultrafast lasers make...

High-resolution microscopy methods based on nonlinear optical technique find numerous applications in brain imaging. Functional or structural information can be gained with different implementations....

Multiphoton imaging is 30 years old and brimming with new technologies and application trends. Its largest user group is represented by the neuroscience community. Here, the synergy of an...

Autofluorescence refers to the natural emission of fluorescence exhibited by certain biological structures or molecules when exposed to light. Unlike fluorescence that results from the application of...

A single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) is a specialized type of photodetector designed to detect extremely weak optical signals, down to the level of single photons. SPADs are widely used in...

A set of algorithms used to study the structural and spatial characteristics of objects in a digitized image for applications including feature extraction and image segmentation in machine vision and...

The term acute bisectrix is used in mineralogy and crystallography to describe a specific optical property of minerals, particularly in relation to their crystal structure and light behavior. ...

This hands-on session about FD-FLIM by Gerhard Holst from PCO AG was given as part of the FLIM Symposium "Beginners Guide to Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging in Life Sciences".

Established in 1990, Applied Scientific Instrumentation is a reknown American company committed to the advancement of science. ASI products have been thoroughly tested and evaluated in numerous labs...

Easy and Cost-Effective Super-Resolution to ~100 nm. Andor has introduced two new highly innovative sCMOS cameras, both delivering easy and cost-effective access to super-resolution capabilities and...

Learn how to assemble a microscope system using Edmund Optics® 120i Plan APO Infinity Corrected Objectives. These are infinite conjugate microscope objectives that offer exception image flatness...

Andor Technology Ltd is a global developer and manufacturer of high-performance scientific cameras, microscopy systems and spectrographs for academic, government, and industrial applications. Founded...

Innovating since 1979: Meadowlark Optics has been a leader in polarization optics for over 40 years. We provide world-class optical components, systems and custom engineering services using...

Photron has been a global market leader in high-end, high-speed camera systems for over forty years. The company’s continuing development of new state-of-the-art products illustrates a...

Founded in 1971, Edinburgh Instruments Ltd. is a global provider of sophisticated, state-of-the-art analytical instrumentation for optical spectroscopy. We design and manufacture a range of...