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BioPhotonics - March 2013
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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, and the past decade has seen a testing trend emerge: Ever-more-stringent regulatory controls have meant that some drug companies are slow to adopt, or...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Editorial
Biophotonics 4 EU
A fter four years of European Union funding, Photonics4Life (P4L), the biophotonics platform uniting the region’s researchers, industry and clinicians to collaborate and advance the discipline, is moving forward on its own, according to a news release from the European Commission/CORDIS. To date, the group has funded more than 34 yearlong “feasibility” projects, including the...
BioScan
Microactuator gives microrobotics a flexible finger
A powerful new microscale actuator that flexes like a miniature beckoning finger when heated with laser light can deliver a force three orders of magnitude greater than human muscle. The discovery may point toward practical applications in artificial muscles, microfluidics and drug delivery. The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) microactuator uses a vanadium dioxide...
Ultrasonic invisible scalpel performs noninvasive surgery
There’s more to ultrasound machines than simply watching babies develop inside the womb. They’re used to blast apart kidney stones and prostate tumors, for example. And now, with a...
Plasmonics could allow manipulation of smallest particles yet
Optical tweezers could become extremely dexterous at manipulating incredibly tiny particles if a new theoretical design based on plasmonics becomes a reality. Optical tweezers have been an...
Nanoprobes beam brightly on biomarkers
Step aside, surface-enhanced Raman scattering probes. There’s a new nanoprobe in town, and it can shine 20 times brighter than a conventional probe when swept with an infrared laser. The...
A 3-D light switch for the brain
A new tool that delivers precise points of light to living brain tissue in three dimensions could one day help treat Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy; it could even aid in the understanding of...
Optical tools get new twist
Conventional optical tools gently push and pull microscopic particles using light, but a new fiber-based system also gives microbiologists the ability to twist and turn samples. The fiber optic...
Light triggers biochemical reactions
Biochemical reactions can now be remotely triggered on demand, thanks to a new technique that turns light into heat at the point of need on the nanoscale. The method, created by Rice University...
Laser microscopy tests for skin damage
Beauty is only skin deep, and now scientists can use a laser microscopy technique to gauge a person’s true age from his/her most shallow layer – the skin. The method could provide a...
Laser optics enable view inside a fly’s eye
New laser optics technology that supports high-resolution 3-D microscopy is providing a view into the interior of flies, mice and even medical tissue samples. The technology and the optics in...
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Halma buys MicroSurgical Technology Inc. for $57M
Safety, health and environmental technology group Halma has expanded its ophthalmic offerings with the acquisition of MicroSurgical Technology (MST) Inc. for $57 million in cash. The deal, which included an additional $2 million for cash retained in business, was funded using Halma’s existing cash and debt facilities. MST will receive another $43 million if earnings for the two years...
W.M. Keck Foundation grants $1M for biomedical research
Oregon Health & Science University’s (OHSU) Knight Cancer Institute has secured a $1 million grant to develop microscopy technology to advance biomedical research. A...
Iridex Corp.
Laser-based medical systems provider Iridex Corp. of Mountain View, Calif., has licensed its MicroPulse photocoagulation technology to Quantel Medical of Clermont, France, for use in clinical...
NKT Photonics
In Denmark, NKT Photonics’ Lasse Leick has received the 2012 Pasteur Award from the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation for his work on developing a broadband infrared laser that...
Life Technologies Corp.
To expand its cell imaging instrumentation product line, Life Technologies Corp. of Carlsbad, Calif., has purchased Advanced Microscopy Group (AMG), a developer of imaging systems for research...
Lumetrics
A handheld eye scanner could improve access to vision-related health care worldwide, thanks to a grant issued to Lumetrics by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The Rochester, N.Y.-based...
CoolLED Ltd. and Tek5 Systems LLC
UK-based light-source manufacturer CoolLED Ltd. and Tek5 Systems LLC have together established CoolLED USA in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., to support research and OEM users of CoolLED products in the US...
Postscripts
HoloHands turns laser tweezing into a game
They’ve both been around since the ’70s, but they never got together until now. We’re talking about video game consoles and optical tweezers, and a new system that brings the two together – with a very modern twist. Through the system, called HoloHands, scientists can use the motion sensor in Microsoft Xbox Kinect’s video game platform to control holographic...
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Scanlab AG is offering SCANalign, a vision system tailored to self-aligned laser processing applications. Users can perform high-precision laser processing in low-precision environments. The system automatically recognizes and locates fiducial markers or other features on workpieces so the laser beam can be precisely positioned with respect to these fiducials. Users can calibrate the...
SCANLAB GmbH
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Raman Filters
Improved 1064-nm filters have been added to Iridian Spectral Technologies Ltd.’s Raman filter offerings. Noncontact identification of explosives and hazardous materials is an important...
Iridian Spectral Technologies
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25-nm Bandpass Interference Filters
Edmund Optics has released its TechSpec hard-coated 25-nm bandpass interference filters. Delivering high transmission with deep blocking, they are suitable for life sciences and machine vision...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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High-Content Microscope
A high-content microscope featuring speed and flexibility for imaging and managing biological assays using a system based on the Nikon Ti inverted microscope and NIS Elements HC software has been...
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Vacuum CCD
Driven by the Sony ICX674 and ICX694 chips, the Kingfisher V from Raptor Photonics Ltd. is a deep-cooled vacuum interline scientific CCD camera. The digital monochrome camera is available with 2.8-...
Raptor Photonics Ltd.
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Imaging Software
Next-generation QuantorMed+ and QuantorVet+ imaging software has been released by 3DISC Americas Inc. Quantor+ uses the proprietary FireCR+ medical and veterinary readers with optimized image...
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Kinematic Positioning System
Newport Corp. has introduced the HXP1000 Hexapod, a high-load, six-axis parallel kinematic positioning system that can accommodate a centered load of 450 kg or a load of 200 kg in any orientation. ...
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Remote Sensing Bundles
To enable scientists, researchers and field technicians to perform remote sensing work, Spectral Evolution has created two remote sensing bundles that include a spectroradiometer, accessories and...
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Digital Slide Scanner
The Microscopy business group of Carl Zeiss is launching a digital slide scanner. Axio Scan.Z1 is an automated microscope system that allows researchers to digitize fixed tissue sections and...
Carl Zeiss Spectroscopy GmbH
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Cooling Stage
Linkam Scientific Instruments has developed a stage for cryo-correlative light electron microscopy (cryo-CLEM) used in imaging of cells at cryo temperatures. It was designed in collaboration with...
Linkam Scientific Instruments Ltd.
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Particle Measurement System
Designed to provide customers with a streamlined solution for quantifying microscopic residue, defects and foreign particles during manufacture, Olympus America Inc.’s Inspector Series 5.2...
Evident
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Microscope Enclosure
Warner Instruments is offering Okolab’s Bold Line Cage Incubator, which provides a controlled environment all around a microscope. The whole-microscope enclosure maintains cell culture...
Warner Instruments LLC
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Micropolarizer Camera
The PolarCam micropolarizer camera from 4D Technology is available through Laser Physics UK Ltd. It simultaneously captures multiple polarized images of each video frame, enabling a range of image...
Laser Physics UK Ltd.
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Long-Wave Pass Filters
Semrock Inc. has announced expanded wavelengths for the EdgeBasic line of long-wave pass edge filters. Ten laser wavelengths have been added to the previous 19. The filters offer steep edge locations...
IDEX Health & Science - Semrock Optical Filters
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Multicamera Inspection System
Olmec Ltd. has developed a multicamera, multi-illumination, high-speed inspection system to check the integrity of the foil seal on plastic lids that are used to seal glass and plastic containers in...
Olmec-UK Ltd.
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Stand-Alone Camera Controller
Olympus Europa Holding GmbH has released a stand-alone controller for the 5-megapixel DP26 camera. Users can view samples and capture images directly on a monitor screen with no need for a dedicated...
Olympus Europa SE & Co. KG
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Vision System
Teledyne Dalsa Inc. has launched a compact vision system for multicamera applications, final inspection of large assemblies and industrial inspection tasks. The six high-bandwidth Gigabit...
Teledyne DALSA, Machine Vision OEM Components
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3-D HD Video System
Trenion 3D HD from Carl Zeiss Meditec AG is a modular extension of the company’s OPMI Pentero and OPMI Pentero 900 surgical microscopes. It enables high-definition three-dimensional...
Carl Zeiss Meditec Inc.
Slow-Scan USB Model
For scanning electron microscope (SEM) digital image acquisition, Quartz Imaging Corp. has introduced its Quartz PCI slow-scan USB model. The compact external device plugs into a USB port on a PC and...
Quartz Imaging Corp.
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