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    Photoacoustic Microscopy
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    FIGURE 1. A Chromacity engineer aligns an ultrafast fiber laser with second-harmonic generation.
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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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    Detectors & Imaging

    sCMOS camera detects trace concentrations of species

    Andor Technology
    Nov. 21, 2024
    The Marana 4.2B-6 back-illuminated 4.2-Mpixel scientific CMOS (sCMOS) model now offers a low noise mode with read noise of 1.0 e-.
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    Fluorescence

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    Becker & Hickl GmbH
    Nov. 15, 2024
    BH’s FLIM technique uses a combination of single-photon detection and confocal or multiphoton laser scanning. By doing so, it combines the most accurate techniques of resolving...
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    Bio&Life Sciences

    Digital fluorescence microscope offers AI-powered confluency checks

    Leica Microsystems GmbH
    Oct. 30, 2024
    The Mateo FL artificial intelligence (AI)-powered digital fluorescence microscope performs cell culture checks in advanced research applications.
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    Stress-Free Objective Lenses for High Precision Imaging

    Avantier Inc
    Oct. 28, 2024
    In the continuous evolution of optical technology, stress-free objective lenses have emerged as a leading solution, particularly for advanced polarized light microscopy. These...
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    FIGURE 1. In a conventional CT scanner, an x-ray source rotates around the patient. Indirect detectors provide the data from which a 3D image is generated.
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    Photon-counting detectors are poised to revolutionize computed tomography

    Roger Steadman
    Oct. 23, 2024
    For 50 years, computed tomography (CT) has been one of the most valuable diagnostic tools and, thanks to photon-counting detectors, the next revolution of computed tomography ...

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    Test & Measurement

    Spectrometer features transmission grating-based design

    Ibsen Photonics A/S
    Sept. 26, 2024
    The EAGLE C-OCT-S is an athermal, compact spectrometer, suited for spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT).
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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

    A golden opportunity to boost x-ray imaging and scanning

    Liang Jie Wong
    July 22, 2024
    In a breakthrough study, researchers used gold to improve the sharpness of x-ray images and potentially augment processing speeds for x-ray scans.
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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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    Portable digital microscope features 13 Mpixel camera sensor

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