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  • Optimizing Detection in Whole Animal In vivo Imaging

    Animal studies contribute significantly to our understanding of human disease, and function as an established and essential step in the development of treatments and other therapeutic agents. These studies are conducted in the preclinical phase, preceding drug screening in human clinical trials.

  • Achieving a True Global Shutter with Large Format, Back-Illuminated CMOS

    CMOS sensor technology has steadily improved over the last decade, and is now the standard for many applications such as security, machine vision, and handheld imaging systems.

  • Is There Really a Cool Gas in the Middle of the Sun?

    Yes, if you ask a team of researchers from University Hawaii, Institute for Astronomy who returned from an expedition to the blistering Sahara desert, where they found an unexpected source of cool gas-in the outer regions of the Sun.

  • Characterization of Soil-Grown Root Systems

    Recently, a team of scientists working in North America and Europe developed an innovative growth and imaging platform, known as GLO-Roots, that allows root architecture and gene expression to be studied in soil-grown plants.GLO-Roots (Growth and Luminescence Observatory for Roots; U.S. patent application: 13/970,960) is a collaborative effort between the labs of Dr. José Dinneny at the Carnegie Institution for Science (Stanford, California), Dr. Rubén Réllan-Álvarez (Langebio, Mexico), and Dr. Guillaume Lobet at the Université de Liège in Belgium.

  • COSMOS for Ground-Based Time Domain Astronomy

    Time domain astronomy is the study of how astronomical objects and unique events vary over time. It provides an alternative method to understanding the extreme phases of galaxy and stellar evolution, through the investigation of events such as supernovae, and gamma-ray bursts.

  • In Vivo Fluorescence Imaging in the NIR-II Spectral Region for Early Cancer Detection

    UV, VIS, and NIR-I detection methods have been used in various scientific and medical applications for decades. Each of these approaches, however, has its limitations.

  • Ultrafast ICCD Cameras Enable Three-Pulse Ballistic Imaging Technique

    Although the use of sprays for industrial processes such as material deposition, cutting, and mixing is widespread, the design and testing of most spray devices is still predominantly phenomenological, owing not only to limitations in computing power but to gaps in the fundamental understanding of the multiphase fluid phenomena that drive spray breakup and morphology 1,2.

  • NIR-II Probes for In vivo Imaging

    Optical fluorescence imaging is one of the most common techniques for imaging in vivo, due to its high temporal and spatial resolution [1]. As it is a non-invasive, real-time technique it is an attractive imaging modality for medical applications such as cancer diagnostics, biosensing, and medical testing.

  • High-Harmonic Generation (HHG) and Highly-Sensitive Scientific Cameras for Soft X-ray Applications

    As is the case with many scientific and commercial technologies, the x-ray imaging and spectroscopy instruments utilized to perform leading-edge academic and industrial research are becoming smaller, more cost effective, and — in a sense — more personalized.

  • X-ray μCT Provides Nondestructive, High-Resolution 3D Imaging

    Since the early 1970s, x-ray computed tomography (CT) has been one of the most versatile, non-invasive investigative techniques in the medical field. It has also enabled nondestructive investigations in many other fields over the past few decades, including industry, archaeology, life science, geoscience, and crime investigations.

  • Dr. Florian Condamine

    Dr. Florian Condamine works at the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) Beamlines, a European research institute offering highly intense laser systems and high energy radiation to enable research in the fields of physical, biomedicine, material science and more.Dr Condamine and his team have developed a high-repetition rate solid samples delivery system for PW-class laser-matter interaction. This instrumentation can measure 1000s of interactions within one experiment without having to replace the target, increasing the data quality and statistical reliability, while reducing overall experimental time.

  • Direct Detection of X-rays (30 eV to 20 keV) Using Detectors Based on CCD Technology

    CCDs have become increasingly specialized to meet the changing requirements of both commercial and scientific markets. In the scientific market, CCDs have been improved and optimized in a variety of ways to provide high performance across a broad set of applications