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Quantum Leaps into the Imaging Market May 5, 2023 — Quantum ghost imaging was less than two decades old when the U.K. government launched the £1 billion Quantum Technologies Program in 2016. The program established four hubs dedicated to various fields in quantum research and development. One of these hubs, QuantIC, is focused on furthering advancements in quantum-enhanced imaging with 120 full-time researchers spread across eight partner institutions. QuantIC’s director, Miles Pladgett, recalled how when the hub was launched, “most industries...
Photonics Spectra, Jun 2023
Precision Positioning Aids Microscopes with Tracking Viral Progression May 4, 2023 — The rapid spread of COVID-19 and other diseases has shown that understanding viral infection is critical to the health of people around the world. In particular, understanding the dynamics of the earliest stages of infection is important for...
BioPhotonics, Aug 2023
Pulsed Lasers Make Headway in Treating Cardiovascular Disease Mar 21, 2023 — Patients with heart disease often face a daunting journey from diagnosis to treatment. They may learn, after experiencing chest pains or shortness of breath, that they have arteriosclerosis, or damaged arteries, through a test such as a coronary...
BioPhotonics, Jun 2023
Intravital Multiphoton Microscopy Captures Dynamics of the Beating Heart Mar 21, 2023 — Most people know the heart pumps blood to the body, but they may not realize that the blood that fills the four chambers of the heart provides no sustenance to the myocardium, or the heart muscle, itself. Instead, a separate blood supply, the...
BioPhotonics, Jun 2023
High-Speed Photoacoustic Microscopy Captures Processes Within Tissue Feb 3, 2023 — When Alexander Graham Bell discovered the photoacoustic effect in the 1880s, he might not have envisioned that this technology would ultimately be successfully implemented in biomedical imaging applications such as neuroscience, dermatology, and...
BioPhotonics, Apr 2023
Acousto-Optic Components Overcome Limitations in Confocal Microscopy Dec 15, 2022 — Confocal and multiphoton microscopy are commonly used to provide 3D-resolved images of in vitro or in vivo tissue samples without physical sectioning. But there are also inherent trade-offs in the use of these techniques when it comes to imaging...
BioPhotonics, Feb 2023
The Evolution of Scientific Cameras Leads to the Advancement of Microscopy Oct 14, 2022 — Most people are familiar with standard qualitative cameras and bright high-contrast images, thanks to the prevalence of increasingly powerful smartphone and digital cameras in the marketplace. Scientific-grade cameras, however, are designed to be...
BioPhotonics, Dec 2022
A Multiphoton Microscope Enables Portable 3D Biological Imaging Sep 16, 2022 — For decades, optical microscopy has provided the mechanism with which to image cells and tissue for the purposes of cancer research, digital pathology, and the study of the brain. Samples are typically studied in frozen sections. Most of these...
BioPhotonics, Oct 2022
Portable Reflectance Confocal Microscopy for Low-Resource Settings Aug 30, 2022 — Reflectance confocal microscopy (RCM) is an optical imaging technology that captures reflected light from tissue to visualize the tissue’s cellular morphologic details. The method does not require excision of the tissue or the use of fluorescent dye...
BioPhotonics, Dec 2022
Sputter-Coated Optics Improve Machine Vision and Remote Sensing Jul 13, 2022 — For biomedical instrumentation applications such as fluorescence microscopy and Raman spectroscopy, sputter-coated thin-film interference filters deliver exemplary performance. These filters also enhance imaging system performance for applications...
Photonics Spectra, Sep 2022
Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes Sharpen Spatial and Temporal Resolution Mar 31, 2022 — As their name implies, single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) detect single particles of light, and they do so with picosecond precision. Single-pixel SPADs have found wide use in astronomy, flow cytometry, fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy...
Photonics Spectra, May 2022
AI Bridges the Gap Between Medical Imaging and Analysis Feb 18, 2022 — Improvements in the automation of functional mechanical, electrical, and optical components — along with increasing computing power for image analysis — have enabled the development of high-throughput microscopes, such as the whole slide scanners...
BioPhotonics, Jun 2022
LEDs and Optical Filters Expand Live-Cell Imaging Capability Feb 7, 2022 — The light source of a wide-field fluorescence microscope is often overlooked by scientists who perform live-cell imaging experiments. However, innovations such as transistor-transistor logic (TTL) triggering, which enhances on/off speed, and inline...
BioPhotonics, Apr 2022
The Biophotonics Congress Will Explore Image Analysis and Wearable Monitoring Feb 3, 2022 — The upcoming Biophotonics Congress: Biomedical Optics will feature optical technologies ranging from spectroscopy and endoscopy for the diagnosis of disease to computational pathology and wearable sensors that monitor vital health statistics. The...
BioPhotonics, Apr 2022
Photoacoustic Remote Sensing Reveals Clues About Cancer, Blindness Jan 6, 2022 — As microscopic optical inspection techniques have progressed over the years, they have provided valuable insights into the composition, structure, and function of cells and subcellular structures, transforming the way researchers and clinicians look...
BioPhotonics, Apr 2022
Quantum Cascade Lasers Shift from an Emerging to an Enabling Technology Jan 5, 2022 — Since the unveiling of the quantum cascade laser (QCL) at Bell Labs in 1994, the technology has evolved — from being simply a cutting-edge field in pho­tonics research to being commercially available in the form of packaged lasers, QCL-powered...
Photonics Spectra, Feb 2022
Multiphoton Exoscope Broadens Noninvasive Imaging of Skin Dec 9, 2021 — Skin imaging at the cellular level is critical for understanding how diseases and aging affect the skin, and for developing strategies and therapies to prevent and combat these effects in a clinical setting. Visualizing dynamic cellular and...
BioPhotonics, Feb 2022
Miniaturization in NIR Spectroscopy Reshapes Chemical Analysis Nov 24, 2021 — Near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy has been used in groundbreaking research in many of the life sciences due to its capacity to rapidly determine and analyze the composition of materials. Bulky instruments with limited portability, however, have kept...
BioPhotonics, Feb 2022
Scientific Cameras Push the Boundaries of Speed and Sensitivity Nov 24, 2021 — Scientific applications push imaging to the extremes. They demand cameras that can capture events as they unfold over nanoseconds, or capture processes that produce only a few photons across a broad spectrum — or a combination of both. In all...
Photonics Spectra, Jan 2022
Neurophotonic Techniques Shed New Light on Traumatic Brain Injury Oct 20, 2021 — Traumatic brain injury can have catastrophic impacts on everyday functioning and quality of life. Now, a set of photonic tools may provide fresh insights into this condition. Along with the technical knowledge made available by the application of...
BioPhotonics, Dec 2021
Biomedical Research, Innovation to Take Center Stage at SPIE BiOS Oct 20, 2021 — A rapid-fire Hot Topics session featuring talks on the latest in biomedical optics, from live analysis of embryonic development to deep learning-enabled optics, will be a centerpiece at SPIE BiOS — part of Photonics West 2022 — to be...
BioPhotonics, Dec 2021
Two-Photon Imaging Monitors Brain Synapses During Prolonged Anesthesia Oct 15, 2021 — The formation of synapses in the circuitry of the brain, and especially the solidification and disappearance of synaptic structures, mediates how people learn, memorize, and forget. Since the introduction of two-photon imaging to neuroscience in the...
BioPhotonics, Dec 2021
The BioPhotonics Conference Sep 30, 2021 — Photonics Media will host the first-ever BioPhotonics Conference online Oct. 26-28. Experts in microscopy, spectroscopy, OCT, flow cytometry, and medical lasers will present on topics such as the detection of cancer and viruses, the analysis of...
BioPhotonics, Oct 2021
Ultrafast Lasers Excite Advancements in Multiphoton Imaging Sep 30, 2021 — Multiphoton microscopy can image deeper into tissue than traditional confocal microscopy, making it ideal for a range of life science studies. The technique is crucial for brain-related research because it allows imaging of large numbers of neurons...
Photonics Spectra, Nov 2021
Camera Selection for Low-Light Imaging Apr 30, 2021 — Fluorescence microscopy is a broadly used term, with applications ranging from basic life science, such as time-lapse cell viability assays, to sophisticated techniques in which a very few photons or single molecules are detected and localized by...
Photonics Spectra, Jun 2021
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