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BioPhotonics: January 2017

BioPhotonics
 January 2017


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Modular Accessories Expand Fluorescence Microscope Capabilities Despite the superior spatial resolution of complementary newer technologies such as atomic force microscopy (AFM), fluorescence microscopy remains a preeminent technology in the life sciences....
Breaking the Speed Barrier for High-Fidelity, Large-Area Confocal Scanning The need to image microstructures over very large areas is driving the next generation of instrumentation in microscopy. The challenge is complex: How can very large areas be scanned quickly and with...
Optical Fibers Illuminate Brain Activity Medical imaging faces inherent limitations depending on its presentation mode. Computer models and virtual reality, while much more effective than two-dimensional depictions, are nonetheless images...
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Smartphones Poised to Shake Up Spectroscopy This June will mark the 10-year anniversary of the release of Apple’s iPhone. It did not take long for this mobile operating system to earn its reputation as a disruptive innovation, with that...
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EDITORIAL
Auspicious Beginnings Our cover story on confocal microscopy introduces a type of instrumentation that will allow researchers, most notably neuroscientists, to scan large areas of cells with ease and high fidelity. Strip mosaic technology unfurls imaging strips rather than creating individual patchwork fields, improving image quality because the strips can be assembled with pixel-to-pixel accuracy. Most revolutionary...
BIOSCAN
Virtual Reality Diagnoses Balance Disorders Disorders of balance and vestibular function (balance and eye movement) can be diagnosed using a new portable, and inecpensive virtual reality device.
Smartphones Used for Live Cell Imaging Laboratories around the world can now make movies of living cells with their smartphones. Researchers from Uppsala University gave their old standard inverted microscopes an upgrade using a few...
Graphene-Laced Silly Putty Creates Sensors By infusing silly putty (polysilicone) with graphene, researchers have produced an extremely sensitive sensor they call “G-putty.” They found that when the graphene was added, the silly...
Hyperspectral iPhone Camera to Monitor Health and Environment By turning an iPhone camera into a new kind of optical sensor, researchers at VTT Technical Research Center of Finland have created a low-cost hyperspectral mobile device. This will allow consumers...
Optical Imaging Platform Uses Light to Treat Arrhythmia Use of light to defibrillate cardioarrhythmic events in humans could offer a gentler alternative to shocking the heart back to normal rhythm through a generalized electrical discharge. With the...
3D Imaging Study Reveals Chromosome Makeup An advanced imaging technique combining light and electron microscopy with computational modeling software has revealed that DNA makes up only half of the material inside chromosomes — far less than...
Light Could Propel Nanorobots on a “Fantastic Voyage” Through the Human Body Light-driven synthetic nanorobots, comparable in size to a blood cell, could someday travel through the human body to aid surgeons in the removal of tumors and target medications. A nanorobot that...
Novel Optoacoustic Technique Reveals Deep Neural Activity An optoacoustic tomography platform for imaging neural activation deep in the brain has enabled researchers to observe the activation of large neural circuits, currently up to the size of a...
Light Could Restore Health in Bees Exposed to Pesticide Near-IR light therapy has been shown to counteract the harmful effects of neonicotinoid pesticides and improve survival rates of poisoned bees.
Open Source Platform May Reduce Entry Barrier to Optogenetics Testing An optogenetics platform has been developed using open-source hardware and software. The platform is available for biologists who want to incorporate optogenetics testing in their own labs and may...
Quasi-Direct Conversion Used to Create Safer X-rays A novel photonics technology is being developed to produce a set of low radiation, low cost, flat panel x-ray detectors, promising safer diagnosis for patients and less exposure for hospital and...
St. Jude Medical Reaches Primary Endpoint for OCT Trial A trial undertaken by medical device company St. Jude Medical Inc. has met its primary endpoint as the first multicenter, prospective, randomized, controlled study comparing optical coherent...
Hyperspectral Imaging May Enable Earlier Detection of GI Cancers A hyperspectral imaging technique uses a set of camera filters with a standard endoscopy system to increase the number of colors that can be seen during endoscopy and potentially improve the ability...
RAPIDSCAN
Appalachian State Receives NSF Grant for Laser-Scanning Confocal Microscope Appalachian State University’s William C. and Ruth Ann Dewel Microscopy Facility received a $430,900 award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to purchase a new state-of-the-art laser...
Mount Sinai Establishes 3D Modeling Services Mount Sinai Health System hospital network has announced the Medical Modeling Core collaboration, led by the Department of Neurosurgery, where clinicians can confer and order 3D models for their...
NPI Commends Cures Act Passage The National Photonics Initiative, an alliance of top scientific societies uniting industry and academia to raise awareness of photonics, have voiced their approval of the 21st Century Cures Act...
MILabs to Provide CT System to Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham Molecular imaging solutions developer MILabs BV will be providing an advanced U-CT UHR microCT system to the Cystic Fibrosis Research Center (CFRC) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)....
Nocturnal Product Development Granted NIH Award Nocturnal Product Development LLC received a Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer Program Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), with George Washington (GW) University researcher...
Mesolens Utilizes Prior Scientific Systems for Microscope Microscopy developer Mesolens Ltd. has adopted Prior Scientific Ltd.’s precision stages and focusing systems for its microscope system. The Mesolens microscope images relatively large,...
FDA Clears Zeiss Ocular Imaging System Carl Zeiss Meditec AG has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its PLEX Elite 9000 Swept-Source OCT posterior ocular imaging system, expanding the potential for clinical...
RSP Systems Awarded EU Grant for Glucose Monitor Human diagnostics company RSP Systems AS has been awarded a €2.4 million ($2.7 million) grant as part of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 framework for research and innovation. The funds...
Specialised Imaging Forms Wegapixel Ultra-high-speed imaging technology developer Specialised Imaging Ltd. has formed Wegapixel, a new division focused on the design and development of advanced CMOS image sensors. Wegapixel is a...
DeNovix Donates Quantification Equipment to Delaware Incubator Instrumentation developer DeNovix Inc. has donated lab equipment to Delaware Technology Park’s new 10,000 ft2 laboratory incubator. ”As a world-class supplier of specialty instruments,...
BIOPINION
Label-Free Photonic Imaging Modalities: Overcoming Barriers to Clinical Translation Biophotonics has emerged as a vibrant, multidisciplinary field with global impact on biomedical research, and its label-free techniques offer great potential for noninvasive clinical applications. To date, however, very few label-free optical techniques have achieved more than marginal clinical or commercial success, with one major exception being optical coherence tomography (OCT). This lack of...
POSTSCRIPTS
Plants Get the Blues If you’ve ever left a plant out of the light and had it turn a bit yellow only to return it to the light and have it turn green again, then you’ve witnessed the “plant light switch” phenomenon. Plants have a built-in light-sensing system that responds to different times of day and to seasonal changes. Blue light plays a key role in activating plants’ responses. In fact, blue light has a...
PRODUCTS
Extended Wavelength and SWIR Emitters Marktech Optoelectronics has announced emitters in the extended wavelength or shortwave infrared range. The Marktech extended wavelength standard SWIR package offerings include the TO-46 flat; TO-46...
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Brain Mapping Platform The nVoke brain mapping platform from Inscopix Inc. combines calcium imaging and optogenetics into a single platform for precise measurement and modulation of brain activity patterns with light. ...
Spectrometer The Model 207A high-brightness monochromator from McPherson Inc. is a 670-mm fl f/4.7 spectrometer with off-axis parabolic optics. The off-axis parabolic mirrors provide stigmatic performance....
McPHERSON
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Low-Noise Camera The SOPHIA-XO:2048 high-speed, ultra-low-noise camera from Princeton Instruments Inc. is designed for demanding, very low flux scientific applications. The camera features a 2048 x 2048,...
Teledyne Princeton Instruments
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Ambient Light Sensor The ALS-PD50-42C from Everlight Electronics Co. Ltd. is an ambient light sensor operating at 550 nm and featuring a low signal calculation failure rate and high current efficiency. The heart...
Everlight Electronics Co. Ltd.
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Bacteria Light Sensor Photonics21 has announced a new biophotonic light sensor from European group Poseidon (plasmonic based automated lab-on-chip sensor for the rapid in-situ detection of Legionella) that spots...
Goniometer Stage The AK130-15 Goniometer Stage from Optimal Engineering Systems Inc. is a low-cost, low-profile solution for the precise measurement of angles or the rotation of an object to a precise angular...
Optimal Engineering Systems Inc.
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Photoacoustic Microscope The Hadatomo photoacoustic microscope from Advantest Corp. utilizes a proprietary hybrid imaging technology to enable noninvasive imaging of blood vessels in the dermis to a depth of 3 mm. ...
Advantest Corp.
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Cube Switcher Finger Lakes Instrumentation LLC has announced the INCITE Cube Switcher, 10× faster than traditional cube turrets. The device changes dichroics and emission filters in 30 ms. INCITE...
Finger Lakes Instrumentation
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Encoder The AKS16 high-resolution encoder from Bogen Electronic GmbH performs linear measurements up to 192 mm. With six different diameters from 15 to 60 mm, the AKS16 can scale rotary motions both...
Bogen Electronic GmbH
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Inverted Microscope Platform Carl Zeiss AG has announced the Axio Observer inverted microscope platform for life science research. The line consists of three stable and modular microscope stands for flexible and efficient...
Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH, Microscopy
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Optical Microscope Image Analyzing System The FastPatch 2 GO microscope system from Pamas GmbH is an optical microscope image analyzing system designed to analyze fluids that can prove problematic for automatic particle counters such as...
PAMAS GmbH
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Collimated Diode Lasers The Cyanea Series of Collimated Diode Lasers from Laserglow Technologies are tuned to emit low optical noise, low duty cycle and clean pulse shapes in the 470-nm spectral range, coinciding with the...
Laserglow Technologies
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UV and Blue Light LED Curing Radiometer The X1-1-RCH-116-4 UV and Blue Light LED Curing Radiometer from Gigahertz-Optik Inc. is able to maintain stability in high temperature and intense UV flood and spot curing environments. The...
Gigahertz-Optik Inc.
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Raman Spectroscopy System The HyperFlux PRO Plus Raman Spectroscopy System from Tornado Spectral Systems Inc. is a standalone system that provides fast measurement for dynamic reaction and transient features. A...
Tornado Spectral Systems
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Modular Confocal Microscope The RS-G4 modular confocal microscope from Caliber Imaging & Diagnostic Inc. delivers confocal’s high resolution and clean contract while overcoming limited scan areas. Scanning large...
Caliber Imaging & Diagnostics Inc.
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Illuminator The pE-300ultra illuminator from CoolLED Ltd. delivers precisely controlled illumination for high-speed fluorescence microscopy. The Sequence Runner multiple channel excitation mode allows...
CoolLED Ltd.
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Diode-Pumped Laser Cobolt AB has announced a modulation capability for its diode-pumped lasers in the green-yellow region of the Cobolt 06-01 series of plug-and-play CW lasers. The lasers are available at 532 and...
Cobolt AB
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