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BioPhotonics: March 2010

BioPhotonics
 March 2010


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Dissecting the anatomy of 3-D imaging As the surgeon carefully prepares to make his first incision, he visualizes the route he planned and rehearsed earlier, guided by an ever-advancing suite of optical imaging tools. Thanks to optical...
Getting More System for Less Designing a low-cost biomedical system isn’t easy. After all, it has to achieve acceptable repeatability and sensitivity while holding down expenses and meeting regulatory requirements. That can be...
Piezo motors & actuators streamline medical device performance A key impetus for medical and bioresearch companies to engage during product development cycles is the opportunity to capitalize on advances in technology for the manufacture of better-operating,...
Pointing PDT at Nontumor Targets In PDT, photoreactive substances are brought into contact with tumor cells or other materials one wishes to remove. Once the light-sensitive molecules are given enough time to bind to their targets,...
EDITORIAL
Smart saving, smart spending It often has been said that you have to spend money to make money. But it also could be said that you have to save money to make money. Investing in new, more lucrative markets can be a smart way to make money by spending. Things were looking up for the biomedical device industry at the recent MD&M West (Medical Design & Manufacturing) trade show in Anaheim, Calif., which brings...
BIOSCAN
Adaptive optics: From the stellar to the subcellular Optical distortion has been a problem for astronomers observing the cosmos through ground-based telescopes and for researchers studying the substructures of living cells through microscopes....
Shutting down brain cells with light to study and treat disease By taking a lesson – and some genes – from nature, researchers at MIT have selectively shut down specific brain cells using different colors of light. One application of this new capability could be...
Detecting smoke-induced airway injury with 3-D, swept-source OCT Smoke-inhalation injury is a major cause of morbidity and mortality among victims of fires; airway injury, edema, swelling, sloughing and necrosis with airway obstruction are the major causes of...
Watching cancer cells die Imagine being able to monitor the effectiveness of a cancer treatment cheaply, easily and, most importantly, without harm to the patient undergoing therapy. That’s exactly what researchers at the...
Fluorescent nickel sensor could yield health benefits Too much nickel could make life not worth a plugged nickel because an excess of the metal can adversely affect the respiratory and immune systems. Just how much is too much is a bit of an unknown,...
Fiber optic probe provides errorless blood group detection Fast and precise blood group detection can be a matter of life or death for patients undergoing transfusion medicine. Now, a fiber optic sensor based on surface plasmon resonance (SPR) could be just...
RAPIDSCAN
Funding slowing for biomedical research “Biomedical research is valued highly by individuals, governments, foundations and corporations,” wrote Dr. E. Ray Dorsey and colleagues in a recent article. “Research is seen as a source of more...
VisEn Medical Inc. Fluorescence in vivo imaging provider VisEn Medical Inc. of Bedford, Mass., has announced that it has acquired the fluorescence imaging agent intellectual property portfolios and related technology...
Specialised Imaging Ltd. Specialised Imaging Ltd. of Tring, UK, has announced the opening of its North American partner company Specialised Imaging Inc. After five years of representation in North America by IMC/Photo-Sonics...
JEOL USA A JEOL USA electron probe microanalyzer has been installed at the Southeastern North Carolina Regional Microanalytical and Imaging Center to expand research and educational opportunities for...
Qiagen NV Sample and assay technologies provider Qiagen NV of Venlo, the Netherlands, has purchased ESE of Stockach, Germany, an ultraviolet and fluorescence sensor technology company, for $19 million in cash....
BaySpec Inc. BaySpec Inc. of Fremont, Calif., an advanced spectroscopy solutions provider, has announced the successful outcome of a collaboration on a new OCT spectral engine that features up to three times...
Creaform Creaform of Lévis, Quebec, a three-dimensional applications provider, has acquired InSpeck of Montreal, a provider of optical 3-D digitizers and 3-D modeling software. Creaform expects the...
Asylum Research Corp. Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Asylum Research Corp. and Micra Nanotecnologia of Mexico City have announced that they have entered into a distribution agreement that will allow the former company to...
Life Technologies Corp. Life science solutions provider Life Technologies Corp. of Carlsbad, Calif., has signed a definitive agreement to acquire AcroMetrix of Benicia, Calif., for an undisclosed amount. The latter is a...
Sony Corp. of America Through its US subsidiary, Sony Corp. of America (SCA), Sony Corp. of Tokyo and New York has acquired iCyt Mission Technology Inc. of Champaign, Ill., a producer of high-performance cell sorters used...
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., a provider of analytical instruments and lab and industrial equipment, has announced that it has acquired advanced chemical sensors manufacturer NovaWave Technologies...
Stratophase Ltd. Stratophase Ltd. of Romsey, UK, a specialist in real-time chemical and biochemical measurement and detection, has secured £2.5 million in follow-on funding from investor East Hill Management of...
Applied Spectral Imaging Applied Spectral Imaging of Vista, Calif., a comprehensive imaging solutions provider for pathology and cytogenetics, was chosen by the European Union to be one of nine industry and academic groups...
LightWorks Optics Inc. In Tustin, Calif., LightWorks Optics Inc., a custom precision optical components and advanced integrated optics solutions company, has opened a 14,000-sq-ft office and manufacturing facility adjacent...
POST SCRIPTS
Ask her to dance, but leave if her dress starts to blink Ostensibly designed as a means to open discussions of global warming at cocktail parties, the Climate Dress may provide even more important, more immediate value. Made by Diffus, a design studio based in Copenhagen, Denmark, the garment incorporates a soft conductive thread that permits the sewing of embroiderylike features. Scattered throughout the embroidery are more than 100 LEDs that...
PRODUCTS
Tabletop Microscope The TM3000 from Hitachi High-Technologies Corp. is a tabletop variable pressure scanning electron microscope featuring “one button” auto start, autofocus and other automated onboard functions. Controlled through a laptop computer with an intuitive user interface, it was designed for use by nonspecialists. The instrument delivers magnification up to 30,000x and offers users three modes...
Hitachi High-Tech America Inc., Life Sciences and Nanotechnology
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RAMM System From Applied Scientific Instrumentation, the rapid automated modular microscope (RAMM) system allows users to develop a custom system. The microscope is configurable with infinity-corrected optics,...
Applied Scientific Instrumentation Inc.
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Polarization Microscopy Carl Zeiss MicroImaging Inc.’s Axio Scope.A1 offers polarization microscopy. With minimal effort, six versions of the microscope can be specifically configured for polarization techniques. Designed...
Carl Zeiss Microscopy LLC
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Light Source Energetiq Technology Inc. has released its LDLS laser-driven light source technology, fully embodied in the compact EQ-99 long-life broadband source. It features CW laser plasma discharge, and the...
Energetiq Technology Inc.
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Nanopositioning Expanding its MIPOS nanopositioning series, piezosystem jena has introduced the N100 actuator for precise fine-focusing of objectives in microscopes and other optical systems. Compact and easy to...
piezosystem jena GmbH
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Gamma Ray Spectrometer Ametek Advanced Measurement Technology’s Ortec Products Group has released an integrated gamma ray spectrometer for use in fixed and mobile counting room applications. The self-contained LDM100-GEM...
ORTEC
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Medical Imaging Camera Through its Rad-icon Imaging division, Dalsa Corp. is offering the Helios10 MD camera with an active sensing area of 20 x 25 cm. The CMOS x-ray panel is housed in a custom-molded medical-grade...
Teledyne DALSA, Machine Vision OEM Components
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Picosecond Laser Attodyne’s APL-500-1064 and APL-4000-1064 air-cooled, picosecond lasers can be pulsed on demand from 0 to 500 kH. The compact fiber-based diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) devices combine the...
Attodyne Inc.
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Laser Safety Eyewear Laser Physics UK Ltd. has expanded its Sperian line of high-transmission filters with a diode and YAG filter for its laser safety eyewear. Filter 162 has EN 207 protection levels 800-820 DI L6 and...
Laser Physics UK Ltd.
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Particle Processor Software ThermoFisher Scientific Inc. has launched its BindIt 3.1 software for use with its KingFisher magnetic particle processor instruments. Users can create new purification protocols or modify existing...
Thermo Fisher Scientific
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Ultrafast Lasers The FemtoFiber pro ultrafast lasers from Toptica Photonics Inc. offer hands-off operation and emit pulses at 1560 nm with a pulse width below 100 fs and an average power of >350 mW. Standard...
TOPTICA Photonics Inc.
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Microplate Reader The Asys UVM340 Fastie-Ebert monochromator-based microplate reader has been introduced by Biochrom Ltd. The holographic grating enables users to select the exact wavelength, from 340 to 800 nm at...
Biochrom Ltd.
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Virtual Slide System Olympus Europa Holding GmbH has released an enhanced version of its dotSlide virtual slide system. Combining microscopy with imaging to create a virtual slide that can create an exact copy of the...
Olympus Europa SE & Co. KG
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Semiconductor Laser Offering four output powers ranging from 20 to 100 mW, the Sapphire 514 LP lasers from Coherent Inc. provide a compact, reliable all-solid-state alternative to legacy ion technology in the green...
Coherent Inc.
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LCD Technology Lumex has launched InfoVue, an enhanced-background twisted nematic (TN) family of custom negative image TN LCD technology to deliver contrast up to six times higher than standard TN LCDs. Compatible...
Lumex
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Ultraviolet Spectrometer McPherson Inc.’s vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) spectrometer is now available with sensitive, cooled, scientific-grade CCD detectors. Model 234/302 is suitable for plasma process mapping, fluorescence,...
McPHERSON
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CARS Fiber Device Designed for use with 800-nm femtosecond lasers, the SCG-800-CARS from Newport Corp. contains 12-cm, highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber with zero dispersion points at ~775 and 945 nm. The...
MKS/Newport
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Slide Scanner PI (Physik Instrumente) LP has released a high-speed microscope slide Z-scanner piezo stage for microscopy and imaging applications. Optimized for fast step and settle and for easy integration into...
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, Motion Control, Air Bearings, Piezo Mechanics
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Pipetting The Integra Pipetboy pipetting aide from Integra Biosciences features a new white LED light that provides optimal illumination of the area around the pipette. The device enables accurate pipetting...
Integra Biosciences Group
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