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KODAK CCD Image Sensors Help Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Reach New Milestones

As the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) approaches the three-year anniversary of its launch, imaging technology from Eastman Kodak Company continues to enable the orbiter to explore the red planet as never before.

29 Jul 2008

cellTRAY Offers Most Advanced On-Microscope Incubtor and Fluidics System

Nanopoint Inc., an award-winning developer of cellTRAY® Fluidics and Imaging System products, is announcing positive validation of its Model CT-2000 from early customers who range professionally from microfluidics system experts to award-winning pharmaceutical researchers.

29 Jul 2008

High Definition Imaging System from Carl Zeiss Meditec Designed to Identify Early-Stage Glaucoma and Retinal Diseases

Pima Eye Institute, which provides specialty eye care to the Southern Arizona community, announced today that it has acquired advanced new imaging technology from Dublin, CA based Carl Zeiss Meditec that can help identify early signs of glaucoma and retinal diseases more effectively than other imaging or diagnostic tools.

28 Jul 2008

Microscopic Microscope Operates Without Lenses

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have turned science fiction into reality with their development of a super-compact high-resolution microscope, small enough to fit on a finger tip.

28 Jul 2008

Canon Installs CR-1 Non-Mydriatic Digital Retinal Camera at Eye Clinic

Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging technologies, today announced the first domestic installation of its new Canon CR-1 Non-Mydriatic Digital Retinal Camera at Rochester Family Eye Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

28 Jul 2008

Next Generation Optical Storage Systems using Electrically Powered Semiconductor Laser Diodes

Scientists have developed electrically powered semiconductor laser diodes that operate at a shorter wavelength than any others used today. The lasers, described online this week in Nature Photonics ("A 342-nm ultraviolet AlGaN multiplequantum-well laser diode"), could be used for the next generation of optical storage systems following today's Blu-ray disks, and will have applications in biomedicine, materials processing and microchip manufacture.

28 Jul 2008

Innovative Glasses Making it Easier for People with Impaired Vision to Drive

Glasses embedded with a telescope promise to make it easier for people with impaired vision to drive and do other activities requiring sharper distance vision. Schepens Eye Research Institute scientists describe the advantages of these innovative glasses over earlier devices in an article published in the May/June issue of Journal of Biomedical Optics, mailed in print form to subscribers this month.

24 Jul 2008

Canon’s Latest DR Imaging System Offers Outstanding Diagnostic Imaging Quality

Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging technologies, today announced the expansion of its line of digital radiography (DR) systems with the introduction of the Canon CXDI-60G Portable Flat Panel Detector. Canon's ninth-generation flat panel detector extends DR beyond traditional applications to include room-to-room installations, mobile X-ray systems and more.

23 Jul 2008

Connection Between Vision, Learning Problems and Vision Therapy Treatments

As parents ready millions of children across the US to start the new school year, COVD's "August is Children's Vision and Learning Month" campaign is working to raise awareness about the important connection between vision and learning.

23 Jul 2008

Astron Clinica to Distribute Palomar's Range of Aesthetic Imaging Products

Palomar Medical Technologies, Inc., a leading researcher and developer of light-based systems for cosmetic treatments, announced today that it has entered into a Distribution Agreement with Astron Clinica, Ltd. to distribute a range of aesthetic imaging products in the United States and Canada.

23 Jul 2008