Aydogan Ozcan, Chancellor's Professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering at UCLA (Los Angeles, CA), is one of 15 researchers from around the country to be named a 2014...
Now, prices have reached a threshold where optical coherence tomography (OCT) can be used by care providers not just for humans, but also for companion animals.
Knowing that sea lice are a threat to salmon farms and surrounding sea life, Stingray Marine Solutions AS (Oslo, Norway) has developed a submersible device that they call Optical...
Images courtesy of Erickson Lab, Cornell University
Instruments that can do medical diagnoses at home or other places far from hospitals are the wave of the future. Optofluidic devices, some of which can be used with smartphones...
An emerging label-free imaging modality with chemical selectivity and millimeter-deep resolvability, vibrational photoacoustics (VPA) provides a new avenue to map chemical content...
High-performance sensors, lenses, and light modules are enabling an unprecedented ability to image action potentials. Building a system to capture these important event triggers...
Time-resolved ("lifetime") fluorescence spectroscopy and imaging provide label-free optical molecular contrast of diseased tissues and outperform steady-state fluorescence. Now...
Enabling control of imaging devices and easy image sharing, apps for smartphones and tablets are revolutionizing education involving microscopy. In the future, they will likely...
Functional neuroimaging via optical methods offers many advantages—safety, implant compatibility, affordability, and potential portability—over traditional PET- and MRI-based ...
The Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN) has launched a new gene panel cancer test to help tailor chemotherapy to individual patients based on the unique genomic signature of each one'...
Innovation in mobile health may be driven largely by interest in vital signs and in vivo diagnostics (according to a new report by Lux Research)—but it is aided by low-cost photonics...
Convergent Dental Inc.'s (Natick, MA) Solea laser system—which, at 9.3 μm, is the first CO2 laser system ever cleared by the FDA for hard and soft tissue ablation—took a Gold ...
Can we reduce cancer recurrences with tools to enable more precise surgical resection? That was the major question of a workshop, organized by the European Photonics Industry ...
A new chip-based biosensor hopes to one day allow people with diabetes to measure their glucose using saliva-and do away with needle sticks. And it promises other applications...
In papers published by Biomedical Optics Express, groups of researchers from the Netherlands and Israel describe two new wearable devices that use changing patterns of scattered...
Researchers have demonstrated for the first time that noninvasive, low-power light therapy can prompt stem cells inside the body to reconstruct tissue.
Optogenetics, which lets scientists control brain activity by shining light on neurons, involves light-sensitive proteins (to suppress or stimulate signals within cells) and-traditional...
Noninvasive photodynamic therapy (PDT) is very precise and boasts no long-term side effects. But because it typically uses visible light, it is normally effective only for the...
In a new market report on the mobile health (mHealth) market, Lux Research (Boston, MA) says that once mobile clinical devices clear regulatory hurdles and physicians embrace ...
