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    Depiction of the adaptive sampling scheme, in which a laser beam patterned by a digital micromirror device selectively illuminates neurons and their activity in brain tissue.
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    Avantier Stress-Free Objective Lenses
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    Science & Research

    Fluorescence lifetime imaging platform adds confocal high-speed laser scanning

    HORIBA Scientific
    Sept. 8, 2024
    InverTau is a fully software-controlled platform that mounts to the side port of an inverted fluorescence microscope to add fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) capability.
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    Bio&Life Sciences

    Bioimaging: Is it possible to improve the performance of microscopes?

    Antonio Castelo
    Aug. 20, 2024
    Advances in microscope technology can improve the efficiency, accuracy, and speed of the biological specimen imaging process.
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    Lasers & Sources

    Ultrafast fiber laser offers 1000–1100 nm spectral bandwidth

    HÜBNER Photonics - a div of HÜBNER GmbH & Co KG
    Aug. 1, 2024
    The VALO Tidal ultrafast fiber laser delivers pulse durations of 40 fs (typical) with 2 W output power.
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    Detectors & Imaging

    FLIM camera system provides 1008 × 1008 pixel resolution

    Excelitas PCO GmbH
    July 4, 2024
    The pco.flim X frequency domain fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) camera system can measure fluorescence lifetimes from 1 ns to 100 µs.
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    Detectors & Imaging

    Portable digital microscope features 13 Mpixel camera sensor

    June 30, 2024
    The MiScope MP4K USB 3.0 handheld digital microscope has 10–360x magnification.

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    Detectors & Imaging

    CMOS cameras have use with most microscopes

    Photometrics
    June 26, 2024
    Back-illuminated Kinetix22 CMOS camera models have a 22 mm field of view and 96% quantum efficiency.
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    Lasers & Sources

    Red laser module enables single-molecule observation

    Coherent Corp
    March 3, 2024
    The OBIS 640 XT diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) laser module offers up to 1000 mW output at 640 nm.
    Detectors & Imaging

    Digital microscope camera offers AI-based scene detection

    Evident
    Jan. 31, 2024
    The DP75 digital microscope camera captures images from brightfield to wide-wavelength fluorescence and near-infrared using a single camera.
    Detectors & Imaging

    CMOS camera images low-light signals for extended time periods

    Photometrics
    Jan. 13, 2024
    The Retiga E9 scientific camera features a 9 Mpixel CMOS sensor.
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    Bio&Life Sciences

    Next-level virus detection via WIDE-MIP microscopy

    Justine Murphy
    Dec. 4, 2023
    Rapid and accurate detection of a virus can quite literally make the difference between life and death. With this in mind, researchers created a mid-infrared photothermal microscope...