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Smartphones Set to Revolutionize the Medical World …
… but companies developing portable diagnostic devices for use in underserved settings must first consider a host of practical factors. The smartphone is an obvious choice for bringing diagnostic and other health care options to the developing world, rural areas and other underserved places. The technology offers the necessary computing power, storage and connectivity in a mobile technology that is already pervasive, even in regions that seem isolated. And the need is very real. Fo...
BioPhotonics, September 2013
STED Microscopy: A New Chapter in Light Imaging
When Stefan Hell invented a technique that pushed beyond the diffraction limit of light for the first time, a new field of nanoscale imaging was born. Now laboratories around the world are using STED microscopy to smash through more boundaries in...
BioPhotonics, September 2013
Biophotonic Technologies Enter Varied Markets
A new report details opportunities for photonics in the life sciences and medicine. Biophotonic technologies have received more and more attention in recent years, highly touted as more-effective, cost-saving methods with applications ranging...
BioPhotonics, July 2013
Fiber Optics’ Versatility Helps Market Grow
Companies report continued growth in the biomedical market. A s diagnostic and treatment technologies evolve and increasingly turn to light, medical device manufacturers increasingly turn to fiber optic components and systems to deliver that light...
BioPhotonics, July 2013
Hyperspectral Imaging Could Help Fight Chronic Wounds
The technique could advance diagnosis and management of this growing public health issue. Chronic wounds might not seem a major public health concern – they don’t often make the evening news – but the burden of treating them is...
BioPhotonics, July 2013
Terahertz Spectroscopy Promises Better Diagnosis, Safer Drugs
With terahertz imaging systems getting smaller and cheaper – and performing better – applications are stacking up in cancer imaging as well as drug detection and development. Terahertz spectroscopy is a fast-growing area of research...
BioPhotonics, July 2013
FRET Microscopy Brings Us into a World of Molecular Interactions
Förster resonance energy transfer microscopy is not bound by the same restrictions as conventional light microscopy – it goes beyond the diffraction limit, allowing molecular interactions to be visualized with greater resolution than...
BioPhotonics, May 2013
Magnetomotive Photoacoustic Imaging Spots Circulating Tumor Cells
A new technique could help metastasis diagnosis by magnetically trapping rare circulating tumor cells in fast blood flow with simultaneous noninvasive photoacoustic detection. Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) originate in a primary tumor and spread to...
BioPhotonics, May 2013
Putting the ‘Early’ in ‘Early Detection’
Molecular imaging could help to advance clinical screenings for esophageal and other cancers. Esophageal cancer is relatively rare: In 2013, only about 18,000 people in the US will be diagnosed with it, compared with the American Cancer...
BioPhotonics, May 2013
Q&A: Market Growing Slowly for PDT
Photodynamic therapy holds promise for cancer treatment and more, but it has yet to make a strong move into the clinic. Photodynamic therapy is not exactly new, but it’s still working on getting its foot in the door – the door of the...
BioPhotonics, May 2013
Fiber Lasers at the Cutting Edge of Surgery
As the cost:performance ratio continues to improve, a broader range of surgical applications is opening up. Compact, lightweight and reliable, fiber lasers are taking more and more surgical procedures by storm. Femtosecond fiber lasers have...
BioPhotonics, April 2013
MicroLEDs Enabling New Generation of Fluorescence Instruments
New light sources can be tailored with respect to emitter design, emission profile, beam shape and power consumption, offering significant benefit for the development of new fluorescence and life sciences applications. The use of fluorescence...
BioPhotonics, April 2013
Plasmonic Nanobubbles Speed Detection and Destruction of Cancer
New theranostic platform can find and kill specific cancer cells while sparing normal cells. Some cancers are nearly impossible to remove without damaging important healthy organs. When such cancers appear to have a high resistance to drugs and...
BioPhotonics, April 2013
Various Factors Influence Growth of Ophthalmic Lasers
Economy and aging population affect adoption and success of laser-based techniques. Lasers are helping to advance a range of ophthalmic applications. At the same time, ophthalmology is proving an important market for manufacturers of lasers and...
BioPhotonics, April 2013
Anisotropy Imaging Elucidates Dynamic Molecular Interactions
A new laser spinning-disk confocal imaging technique called SpiDA enables molecular-level studies of living cells. Fluorescence anisotropy is a well-known technique in fluorescence spectroscopy and biochemical assays1 and has been used in...
BioPhotonics, March 2013
Laser-Based Process Rapidly Fabricates Implants
A new method will advance stereolithography from the rapid prototyping arena to the actual production of 3-D biodegradable scaffolds, and will enable efficient translation of this technology to clinical applications. Biomaterials science encompasses...
BioPhotonics, March 2013
Optical Time-Stretch Brings Diagnostics to a New Timescale
A new platform delivers the best of both worlds – throughput and accuracy – for biomedical and life sciences applications. Optical technology arguably has been playing a decisive role in advancing modern biomedicine. Enabling high...
BioPhotonics, March 2013
Pharmacy Regulations Stalling Uptake of Optical Spectroscopy
Can the latest developments in optical spectroscopy overcome the mounting regulatory hurdles afflicting the pharmaceutical business? Optical spectroscopy has long been a crucial tool for drug development as well as drug inspection and testing,...
BioPhotonics, March 2013
The Ups and Downs of Technology Transfer in Europe
Should Europeans adopt more of an American “rock star” attitude toward technology transfer? Perhaps we have a lot to learn from our US cousins when it comes to backing that promising business venture. Europe enjoys an excellent standing...
Photonics.com, March 2013
Two Modalities Are Better Than One
Multimodal imaging systems advance breast imaging and other applications. The most widely used technology for early detection of breast cancer – x-ray mammography – still suffers several major limitations. It misses roughly 20...
BioPhotonics, March 2013
CARS Is Finding Its Niche
Overcoming challenges on the path to commercialization No matter how useful a technology might prove in the research lab, its developers sometimes still have trouble finding a commercial place for it. The technology might be too expensive or too...
BioPhotonics, January 2013
Dental Laser Market Shows No Signs of Decay
Lasers offer dentists distinct advantages in diagnosis and surgery, and laser companies expect the market to continue to grow. The laser once may have been a solution in search of a problem, but today it is ubiquitous in a wide range of...
BioPhotonics, January 2013
Polarization-Sensitive OCT Monitors Tooth Decay
Nondestructive polarization-sensitive OCT is likely to become a useful addition to the dentist’s armamentarium for assessing the depth and internal structure of lesions related to tooth decay. It also may be extremely valuable to dental...
BioPhotonics, January 2013
Prism Award Finalists Offer Solutions to Big Problems
Finalists include tools for brain imaging, cancer diagnosis and more Powerful new lasers for biological research, ways to see inside the body, and tools for spectroscopy are among the finalists for the 2013 Prism Awards for photonics innovation. The...
BioPhotonics, January 2013
The Most Popular Stories of 2012
Biophotonics experienced and enabled a huge number of fascinating advances in 2012, and we at Photonics Media did our best to share them with industry, academia and the world at large. Here’s a look at some of the top-read biophotonics stories...
BioPhotonics, January 2013
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