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    Detectors & Imaging

    CMOS camera images low-light signals for extended time periods

    LFW Staff
    Jan. 13, 2024
    The Retiga E9 scientific camera features a 9 Mpixel CMOS sensor.
    (Image credit: Ji-Xin Cheng’s Lab, Boston University)
    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...
    Bio&Life Sciences

    FLIM camera system features a SPAD detector

    LFW Staff
    Nov. 27, 2023
    LIFA vTAU is a camera-based system for fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM), particularly live cell applications, with up to 100 lifetime images/sec.
    FIGURE 3. 4D image of a dividing cell that was detected by Aivia in a feedback loop with LAS X from Leica Microsystems.
    Bio&Life Sciences

    How AI and other microscopy advances answer complex life science questions

    Luciano Lucas
    Nov. 7, 2023
    Microscopy enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) will improve life sciences research and development across key therapeutic categories. Promising developments include autonomous...
    Hemco
    Software & Accessories

    Tabletop workstations feature vented hoods

    LFW Staff
    Sept. 26, 2023
    Vented hood tabletop workstations are constructed of chemical-resistant, lightweight composites.
    (Courtesy of SMART)
    FIGURE 1. A 300 mm wafer (a); close-up of a chip die (b); infrared micrograph with the LED turned on (c); holographic microscope setup (d); and a reconstructed holographic image (e) compared with the ground truth (f).
    Lasers & Sources

    World’s smallest silicon LED enables nanoscale holographic microscope

    Justine Murphy
    June 2, 2023
    The world’s smallest silicon light-emitting diode (LED) and holographic microscope may soon bring more high-tech scientific functions to smartphone cameras.
    E Con Systems
    Detectors & Imaging

    Monochrome camera provides IR and near-IR sensitivity

    LFW Staff
    May 30, 2023
    The See3CAM_50CUGM Sony Pregius IMX264 global-shutter monochrome camera includes back-illuminated technology and a 3.45 µm pixel size.
    (Courtesy of Anna Maria Reuss, Fabian Voigt)
    Detailed image of neurons in a mouse brain, as captured using the Schmidt objectives.
    Bio&Life Sciences

    Schmidt telescope, scallop eyes transform microscope objectives

    Justine Murphy
    May 22, 2023
    Drawing inspiration from the uniqueness of scallop eyes, neuroscientists in Switzerland have developed microscope objectives that could make imaging samples simpler, cheaper, ...
    (Courtesy of Salk Institute)
    Salk researchers developed two wearable microscopes to image cellular activity in previously inaccessible regions of the spinal cord of moving mice in real time.
    Bio&Life Sciences

    Wearable microscopes help image cellular activity in spinal cords of on-the-move mice

    Justine Murphy
    April 5, 2023
    Two tiny wearable microscopes for mice are generating high-resolution, high-contrast, multicolor images in real time—providing insight into signaling patterns within spinal cords...