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BioPhotonics - Jul/Aug 2017


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In Dermatology, Lasers Offer Options For Medical, Cosmetic Procedures From skin cancer diagnosis and treatment to wrinkle removal and skin rejuvenation, laser-based treatments increasingly offer noninvasive alternatives to traditional procedures. These noninvasive...
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Spectroscopy and the Holy Grail For more than 30 years, scientists have sought a reliable noninvasive method to monitor blood sugar — for good reason. Invasive testing requires taking blood samples, either through blood draws at...
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Smartphone Fluorescence Microscopy Allows Cost-Effective Molecular Diagnostics Lack of diagnostic tools in resource-limited settings remains one of the major obstacles to disease diagnosis and treatment in the developing world. Although significant progress has been made in the...
Intelligent Hyperspectral Imaging Holds Promise for Pathology Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) provides images with numerous spectral bands over a continuous spectral range, enabling analysis of complex scenes that contain both spectral and spatial information....
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Not Child's Play For $99, a company called Giant Microbes will sell you a gadget that can turn anybody’s smartphone into a smartphone microscope. The company, which also peddles cuddly, plush models of body cells, viruses and bacteria, says its smartphone microscope has a resolution of up to 1 micron and is suitable for ages six and above. This particular smartphone microscope is one measure of how...
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Holographic Technique Traps Irregularly Shaped Microscopic Objects An optical manipulation technique that can securely control the position, orientation and shape of non-spherical microscopic samples, such as living cells, could have direct applications in biophotonics and soft matter physics. Although optical trapping can be used to manipulate the 3D motion of spherical particles, controlling the 3D behavior of non-spherical particles with arbitrary...
Light Exposure in the Evening Improves Sports Performance A new study shows that athletes who are exposed to blue light before competing can significantly improve their end performance. Researchers at the University of Basel’s Department of Sport,...
Nanofiber Device Detects Forces and Sound Waves from Live Cells A novel nano-sized optical fiber, about 100 times thinner than a human hair, is sensitive enough to detect forces down to 160 femtonewtons (fN) (about ten trillion times smaller than a newton) when...
Probe Delivering Optoelectronic Stimulation May Strengthen Understanding of Spinal Cord A rubber-like fiber that can flex and stretch with the human spine while delivering both optical impulses and electrical connections for stimulation and monitoring of the spine could be used in the...
Lighting up the Lungs to Detect Disease A novel imaging tool that rapidly diagnoses bacterial lung infections could help physicians customize antibiotic treatment for patients in intensive care units. Currently, diagnosing bacterial...
Microscopy Method Enables Simultaneous Imaging of 24 Molecules A novel microscopy platform with enhanced detection sensitivity could allow for more comprehensive, system-wide labeling and imaging of greater numbers of biomolecules in living cells and tissues...
Medically Monitoring Cameras Could Replace Skin Sensors Premature babies kept warm in neonatal incubators could soon be medically monitored with cameras rather than with sensors attached to their skin. The camera system was developed by École...
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Ra Medical Systems Receives FDA Clearance for Laser Ablation In an effort to battle Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD), the leading cause of limb amputations, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted market clearance to laser developer Ra Medical...
LMU Researchers Using Flir Cameras to Study Hummingbirds Researchers at the Loyola Marymount University (LMU) Center for Urban Resilience are using thermal imaging cameras from Flir Systems to better understand how hummingbirds can maintain strength with...
Kinetic River Receives NIH Grant Flow cytometry instrumentation developer Kinetic River Corp. has received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The six-month Phase I grant,...
JenLab Receives CFI.co Award for Femtosecond Lasers Laser technology developer JenLab GmbH has received the 2017 Most Innovative Medical Diagnostics Systems Europe Award from Capital Finance International (CFI.co) for its femtosecond laser. The...
DePuy Synthes Products Acquires 3D Laser Printing Technology from TRS Orthopaedics developer DePuy Synthes Products Inc., part of the Johnson & Johnson, has acquired 3D printing technology from medical device company Tissue Regeneration Systems Inc. (TRS). The 3D...
Mevion, Medphoton to Collaborate on Computed Tomography Technology Compact proton therapy systems provider Mevion Medical Systems Inc. has announced an agreement with Medphoton GmbH to integrate the ImagingRing, an innovative cone beam computed tomography (CBCT)...
BioTek Opens Second Solar Facility Life science instrumentation developer Biotek Instruments Inc. has opened its second solar facility. In addition to the company’s existing 500-kW solar farm in Whiting, Vermont, a new, 88-kW...
CereScan Broadens Neuroimaging Patent In response to an application filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, neurodiagnostics developer CereScan has broadened the parameters on its automated diagnostic assistance and intelligent...
Necsel Acquires NGI Assets Laser developer Necsel IP Inc. has acquired the assets of Nathaniel Group Inc. (NGI), a medical illuminator manufacturer. “The combination of Necsel (with its parent company, Ushio America...
DeNovix Spectrophotometer-Fluorometer Awarded DeNovix Inc.’s DS11 FX+ spectrophotometer-fluorometer has been awarded the 2017 Reviewers’ Choice Award for the Best Life Science Product of the Year at a meeting of the American Association of...
BioOpinion
International Health Needs a New Approach International health focuses on the needs of people who cannot access the lifestyle and resources we have in the West — and are getting sicker and dying younger as a result. Adapting new technologies for diagnostics or other devices — optics-based or otherwise — is just one of the approaches through which the international health community seeks to benefit these populations....
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Dolphin-Friendly Apps Test Intelligence Touchscreen computers, tablets and phones are all the rage right now with kids and adults alike. And, we’re learning that dolphins might not be any different. That’s right. Dolphins at the National Aquarium in Baltimore, Md., now have an eight-foot underwater computer touchscreen attached to the outside of their tank that tests their intelligence via dolphin-friendly apps and a...
Confocal Microscopy Sourcebook
Life Sciences Evolving With Confocal Microscopy Confocal microscopy is not a new technique for life sciences applications. But it has steadily advanced since its inception decades ago, becoming a valuable tool for the life sciences. The technique presents challenges, however, because it has a limited depth of focus. To address these limitations, some researchers and product developers are revamping the microscope’s fundamental optics...
Products
NIR Imaging System The Amersham Typhoon NIR Plus is the latest modular and upgradable NIR imaging system from GE Healthcare’s Life Sciences business. NIR Plus’ three-laser flexible configuration provides two essential NIR channels, as well as a third visible laser channel for triplex protein detection to facilitate normalization and the reduction of blot-to-blot variation, saving valuable research... Request info >
Photosensor The P13567-01CT photo IC photosensor from Hamamatsu Corp. combines an NIR-LED and an InGaAs PIN photodiode to provide an ultra-compact package measuring 5.5 × 1.7 × 1.0 mm. The LED...
Hamamatsu Corporation
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Autofocus Camera The See3CAM_81, an 8-MP autofocus USB 3.0 camera from e-con Systems Inc. is based on the 1/3.2-in. OV8865, an 8-MP CMOS image sensor from OmniVision. The See3CAM_81 streams uncompressed video...
e-con Systems Inc.
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Customized Microscopy System Solutions Prior Scientific Instruments Ltd. has announced customized microscopy system solutions. The system provides reduced upfront design and prototype costs. Solution examples include a customized...
Prior Scientific Instruments Ltd.
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Flexible Laser Light Engines The OBIS CellX series of flexible laser light engines from Coherent Inc. delivers up to four separate laser wavelengths from a single module, thereby lowering the complexity and overall cost of laser...
Coherent Inc.
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Spectrograph The SpectraPro HRS-300 spectrograph from Princeton Instruments Inc. is engineered to deliver spectral resolution and astigmatism correction for advanced microspectroscopy and multichannel fiber...
Teledyne Princeton Instruments
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Ophthalmology Beam Guidance Systems SwissOptic AG has announced customer-specific beam guidance systems for ophthalmology applications. The range of solutions includes beam expansion systems, zoomable lenses to focus from cornea...
SwissOptic AG
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Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Camera The Toggel next-generation fluorescence lifetime imaging camera from Lambert Instruments BV makes fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) and fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)...
Lambert Instruments BV
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Laser Marking Turnkey Solution The TruMicro Mark 2000 turnkey solution for the Unique Device Identification (UDI)-compliant laser marking of medical devices has been announced by Trumpf GmbH, combining a marking laser with a UDI...
TRUMPF SE + Co. KG
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Flexible Longpass Filters Flexible Longpass Filters from Edmund Optics Inc. are versatile, cut-on filters that offer deep blocking and high transmission over a spectral range of 400 to 1600 nm. The filters are...
Edmund Optics
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Stick-Slip Motor Driver The E-872 stick-slip motor driver from Physik Instrumente LP is an OEM driver for miniaturized piezo-inertia positioning stages. The driver is designed to complement the size of the...
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, Motion Control, Air Bearings, Piezo Mechanics
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Fluorescence Software PicoQuant has announced a new version of its EasyTau software for the FluoTime 300 fluorescence lifetime spectrometer. The software allows the integration of interfaces for the remote execution...
PicoQuant GmbH
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All-Tissue Dental Laser The Waterlase Express all-tissue laser system from Biolase Inc. is the fifth generation of the company’s dental laser wavelength. The system uses a compact, miniaturized version of the...
BIOLASE Inc.
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