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  • Spinning Disk Confocal

    The team at Department of Cell biology at the National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center is focused on exploring the molecular mechanism by which blood vessel formation and cardiogenesis are regulated during development. To meet their research goals, the team must determine how cardiovascular development is precisely regulated.

  • Optics and Nanomaterials

    The Walter Scott Engineer Center maintains extensive research facilities that include active and passive remote sensing facilities, an optical polarimetric scatterometer, an atomic force/scanning tunneling microscope facility and a microwave anechoic chamber facility.

  • Super Resolution Microscopy (SIM)

    The Center for Biological Imaging is a member of Core Facility for Protein Sciences of Chinese Academy of Sciences, which is a support system for scientific research and plays an integral part in supportinginnovation within the Institute of Biophysics. The core facility center has become the largest CAS biological instrument platform in the Beijing area.

  • Vesicle Tracking and Transport

    Research in the Pucadyil lab at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research is focused on understanding how proteins involved in vesicular transport manage to sort membrane proteins and bud out vesicles from cell membranes. The team approaches this area of research by reconstituting partial reactions that contribute tobudding and scission of transport vesicles from model membranes that mimic native cell membranes.

  • The Development of Carbon Nanotube Optical Sensors for Early Disease Detection

    One of the main areas of research at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City is the development of nanoscale sensors to detect cancer at its earliest stages.

  • Dynamic Neutron Radiography - Novel (3D) Neutron Imaging Technique

    Every engineer and scientist dreams of being able to investigate objects from within, without destroying them, in order to study cracks, hidden flaws, or structural material changes. Over the years, a variety of technologies have been utilized to help make this dream a reality via the ongoing development of new techniques that leverage the unique characteristics of different radiation modalities.

  • Advanced CMOS Detectors: Enabling the Future of Astronomical Observation

    Ground based astronomy provides an accessible way to image objects in space. As most of the objects in space can be observed within the visible wavelength range (380-700 nm), optical astronomy has been at the forefront of astronomical observation. Many objects in space are very faint, requiring a camera with high sensitivity and minimal noise to detect their weak signal.

  • New Era in Dynamic Range and Linearity for Scientific CMOS Cameras

    Scientific CMOS technology offers improvements over previous sensor technologies such as CCD and EMCCD in key performance areas such as speed, noise performance, energy use and sensor size.

  • Why Must I Have an emICCD?

    Intensified cameras are specialized devices that optically connect an image intensifier to a CCD sensor. One finds a wide variety of CCD sensor architectures making this camera type adaptable to many imaging and spectroscopy experimental needs.

  • COSMOS for the Detection and Characterization of Exoplanets

    Exoplanets are planets that orbit a star other than the Sun, and their detection and characterization has been at the forefront within astronomy for multiple years. To date there has been greater than 4000 exoplanets confirmed across a range of different methods, with more than 5000 additional exoplanet candidates.

  • Flexible Electronic Architecture Extends Utility of Scientific Cameras

    Ultimately, the true worth of a scientific camera is determined by its ability to flexibly meet the performance requirements deemed most useful by a given researcher. As many disciplines have continued to evolve over recent years to encompass more varied investigatory techniques, sets of critical requirements have also expanded.

  • Utilizing Fiberoptics for Indirect Detection of X-rays

    Quite often, users of indirect-detection systems assume that the camera manufacturer has carefully selected the ideal combination of sensor, fiberoptic (faceplate/taper) and phosphor to preserve image quality. Unfortunately, each application requires different parameters, and it is difficult for a manufacturer to know every requirement.