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BioPhotonics - March 2011
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Small Animals, Big Achievements
Small-animal imaging is integral to a variety of preclinical imaging applications – with researchers monitoring changes in organs and tissue, for example, in response to physiological or...
Confocal microscopy gets smaller and faster – and branches out
George McNamara would like confocal microscopes to count. When McNamara, image core manager at the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine, says this, he isn’t talking about the...
Fiber lasers are closing the technology gap
Ultrafast fiber lasers, found in countless research laboratories around the globe, are popular tools for physicists and biologists. Favored for being compact and reliable, fiber lasers also come at a...
Raman Allows Light-Therapy Monitoring
The goal of preventive medicine is to stop illness before it begins, or to discover and treat disease before it spreads and becomes serious. There are many approaches to preventive medicine today,...
Editorial
Working together to deliver innovative medical care
The FDA says it has a way to cut nearly in half the time it takes the agency to review most premarket approval applications for high-risk or novel medical devices. In a world in which new consumer products and new versions of popular products from cell phones to sports drinks hit the market at a breathtaking pace, there is always someone, somewhere, waiting for the next breakthrough in medicine...
BioScan
Listening to cancer cells for drug discovery
Researchers are making strides in the field of drug discovery, thanks to holography and lasers. They are now able to detect motion inside three-dimensional tumor spheroids that could show how various...
Finding esophageal precancer with light
A less invasive method for testing patients suspected of having Barrett’s esophagus, a potentially cancerous change in the lining of the esophagus due to acid reflux, has been developed and...
Peering deeper into the brain
A new technique to monitor the tiny branches of neurons deep inside a live brain for months at a time has been devised by scientists at Stanford University. Neuroscientists will now be able to...
Molecular imaging sniffs out malfunctioning organs
Using a biomedical scanner that resolves cellular processes at the molecular level, scientists can now detect a malfunctioning organ before it produces any anatomical changes. Spurring the...
“Spaser”: The future of nanolaser technology
Lasers have been used to zap tumors and send digital TV signals and telephone communications around the world. Now, creating a buzz in the field of nanotechnology, the “Spaser” has...
Firefly protein lights way to blood clot detection
Fireflies have recently proved beneficial to the medical world. The enzyme that makes them glow is paving the way for a long-sought new medical imaging agent to better monitor treatment with heparin,...
Diagnosing strokes with biosensors
Whether a patient is in an ambulance, emergency room or hospital, point-of-care diagnosis of cerebrovascular disease could soon be possible with a novel biosensor system that uses photonic crystal...
Detecting bacterial pathogen species with LIBS
Life-threatening hospital-acquired bacterial pathogens such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are on the rise; however, scientists have found a way to detect them in less than a...
RapidScan
Making 3-D easier on the eyes
Amid news that Nintendo’s new handheld 3DS could be unsafe for children under 6, photonics companies ramped up efforts toward protection standards for three-dimensional viewing equipment and...
Nikon Instruments Inc.
Nikon Instruments Inc. of Melville, N.Y., and 421%%Agilent Technologies of Santa Clara, Calif., have announced an agreement for distribution in the Americas of Agilent’s MLC400 monolithic laser...
OpGen Inc.
A commercial phase genomics and DNA analysis company, OpGen Inc. of Gaithersburg, Md., has announced that Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute of Hinxton, UK, has purchased an Argus optical mapping system...
e2v Technologies
e2v Technologies of Chelmsford, UK, has increased production of its dental x-ray sensors, which incorporate the 0.18-μm CMOS image sensor technology of TowerJazz of Migdal Haemek, Israel. The two...
Opsens Inc.
Opsens Inc. of Quebec City has filed a patent application for the OptoWire, a second diagnostic tool to assess coronary lesions by performing fractional flow reserve measurement. The company’s...
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., based in Waltham, Mass., and 3722%%Dionex Corp. of Sunnyvale, Calif., have announced that their boards of directors have approved a transaction under which the...
ON Semiconductor
In a definitive agreement, ON Semiconductor of Phoenix will acquire the CMOS Image Sensor Business Unit from 3331%%Cypress Semiconductor Corp. of San Jose, Calif., in an all-cash transaction of...
T-Ray Science Inc.
In Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, T-Ray Science Inc. has announced milestones toward the commercialization of its detection technology for skin cancer. The medical device company has signed a...
TrueVision Systems Inc.
TrueVision Systems Inc. of Santa Barbara, Calif., has received 510(k) clearance from the FDA to market the TrueVision 3D Visualization and Guidance System for image-guided ophthalmic surgery. The new...
Imagine Optic
Imagine Optic of Orsay, France, has acquired office space in the Pythagore optics-photonics cluster in Shanghai, China. The cluster, which hosts other high-technology companies, is in the Yangpu...
Telemis
Telemis, a medical imaging solutions provider in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, has further consolidated its position in Italy with the acquisition of Micromedica Ltd., a picture archiving and...
BAE Systems Inc.
Global defense and security company BAE Systems Inc. of Arlington, Va., has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Fairchild Imaging Inc. of Milpitas, Calif., a privately held company that...
Postscripts
From Pac-Man to Pac-mecium and beyond
Someday, perhaps in the not-too-distant future, Internet users may be able to immerse themselves in biology-based action video games that double as research experiments. While having fun and escaping the rigors of science, these players-as-crowd-source could make substantial contributions to biological discovery. In a laboratory at Stanford University in California, physicist Ingmar H....
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IR Achromatic Lenses
Providing near-diffraction-limited focusing over their full spectral range, TechSpec infrared achromatic lenses by Edmund Optics Inc. are color-corrected for 3 to 5 μm (mid-wavelength infrared) or...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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UV Laser
The 150-kHz PicoFlash 355-nm UV laser from Teem Photonics has applications in eye surgery. The laser is based on a master oscillator fiber amplifier architecture, enabling users to vary the pulse...
Teem Photonics
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Microspectrophotometer
The 20/20 Perfect Vision microspectrophotometer unveiled by Craic Technologies Inc. enables automatic imaging and measurement of spectra by absorbance, reflectance, fluorescence and emission, from...
CRAIC Technologies
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Smart Lasers
Coherent Inc. has launched the Obis family of integrated lasers featuring true plug-and-play simplicity for continuous-wave applications. Based on direct diode and optically pumped semiconductor...
Coherent Inc.
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Three-CCD Color Cameras
JAI has introduced the AT-140GE and AT-200E models to its three-CCD color camera series. The company had previously launched versions of these cameras with Camera Link digital interfaces. The new...
JAI Inc.
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Stepper Drivers
Haydon Kerk Motion Solutions Inc.’s stepper motor drivers are available for 24-h shipment, and there is a stepper driver that will work with virtually any size linear actuator the company...
Haydon Kerk Motion Solutions Inc.
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Single-Photon Counters
The SPD_A_M2 ultralow-noise, high-quantum-efficiency near-infrared (900 to 1700 nm) single-photon detectors are manufactured by Auréa Technology. Their Geiger-mode InGaAs avalanche photodiode...
AUREA Technology
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Integrated Circuits
The iC-PN series launched by iC-Haus GmbH includes new optical scanner integrated circuits as a phased array for absolute position sensing devices and high-resolution absolute encoder integrated...
iC-Haus GmbH
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True Fiber-Pigtailed Option
Cobolt AB has released a true fiber-pigtailed option for the Cobolt CW Visible 04-01 series single-longitudinal-mode lasers. In this compact and robust fiber delivery option, the...
Cobolt AB
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Silicon Drift Detectors
Edax Inc. has unveiled the XLT Apollo silicon drift detector series for transmission electron microscopes. The series includes the Super Ultra Thin Window version and the XLTW windowless version....
EDAX Inc., Corporate Headquarters
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Vibration Control
The Shock Absorber from Ophir Photonics is a mounting post designed to allow sensitive pyroelectric laser power/energy sensors to operate in an environment with vibration. Pyroelectric energy sensors...
MKS Ophir, Light & Measurement
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Face Shields
For maximum face and eye protection, Laservision LLC offers laser safety face shields as a larger alternative to standard frames. Their easily adjustable height, length and head diameter provide...
LASERVISION GmbH & Co. KG
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High-Resolution Spectrometer
The Model 2061 high-resolution spectrometer for emission, luminescence, Raman (strained silicon) and high-temperature plasmas measures better than 0.02-nm full width half maximum spectra. Introduced...
McPHERSON
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Imaging Software
Media Cybernetics Inc. has announced the Image-Pro Insight version 8.0 image acquisition, processing and measurement software. The version includes an updated user interface, ease-of-use enhancements...
Media Cybernetics Inc.
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Amplifier Platform
Spectra-Physics, a Newport Corp. brand, has launched the Spitfire Ace, a technically advanced, ultrafast regenerative amplifier that provides long-term performance and delivers average power of >5...
MKS/Spectra-Physics
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UV Crosslinker
The Spectroline Select XLE-Series UV cross-linker from Spectronics Corp. makes it possible to identify and analyze trace amounts of DNA/RNA with greater sensitivity, accuracy and speed in comparison...
Spectronics Corp., Spectroline
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Programmable Liquid Lens
Varioptic has announced its second-generation liquid lens product family. The B617 programmable liquid lens is the first offering in the Baltic line that integrates optical image stabilization and...
Corning Varioptic Lenses
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FTIR spectrometer
Interspectrum OU has released the Interspec 310 series compact portable Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometers. The quality control and safety analyzers are suitable for standard laboratory...
Interspectrum OU
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Line-Scan Camera
X-Scan Imaging Corp. has unveiled an addition to its family of line-scan cameras. Designed for imaging ultrahigh-energy x-ray and gamma ray applications at energy levels to 15 MeV, the XMH8800 series...
X-Scan Imaging Corp.
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Stereo Zoom Microscope
Incorporating high-quality optics, the SX25 stereo zoom microscope from Vision Engineering Ltd. is a compact instrument that provides up to 180x magnification with a 4.5:1 zoom ratio as well as...
Vision Engineering Ltd.
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Photon-Counting Modules
Laser Components GmbH has expanded its Count series single-photon counting modules to include the new CountBlue devices that combine the low count rates of existing modules with higher detection...
Laser Components Germany GmbH
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Imaging Software
PicoQuant GmbH has released the SymPhoTime version 5.2.4 fluorescence lifetime imaging and correlation software. The version supports the configuration of the company’s time-correlated...
PicoQuant GmbH
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Homogenization Optics
Dilas has announced homogenized areal illumination high-power diode lasers. The homogenization of radiation has applications in hair removal and dermatology. The company is using active mixing of...
DILAS Diode Laser Inc.
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Ultracompact Fiber Laser
Calmar Laser Inc. has added an ultracompact high-power 780-nm femtosecond fiber laser to its Mendocino family. Model FPL-05RFF0 offers 500 mW of output power and a pulse width of 150 fs in a 3 x 3 x...
Calmar Laser
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