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Firstsight Vision Releases Latest Common Vision Blox Imaging Toolkit

Firstsight Vision is now shipping the latest release of Common Vision Blox (CVB), the versatile hardware-independent imaging toolkit from STEMMER IMAGING. The latest release delivers one of the industry's first full implementations of Genicam. This enables any GenicamT- compliant camera to be interfaced with CVB.

3 Dec 2007

Lantis Laser Wins Popular Science Magazine Award

Lantis Laser Inc., a New Jersey-based company specializing in the commercialization of advanced dental technology, recently won a Popular Science Magazine 2007 Best of What’s New award for its newly developed Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) Dental Imaging System™. Lantis’ proprietary OCT System is a diagnostic aid that provides real-time, high-resolution chairside imaging of dental tissue for the early detection of tooth decay and other oral diseases.

30 Nov 2007

Health Consequences of Having Too Many CT Scans

Computed Tomography (CT) scans are an increasingly used X-ray-based tool for providing a three-dimensional view of a particular organ or tissue. The value of CT scanning to diagnose injury, cancer and other health problems is undisputed. But are these scans being used too frequently, in some cases unnecessarily" What are the health consequences of having too many CT scans over the course of a person’s life"

29 Nov 2007

Latest Nikon Software Offers Unifying Platform for Fully-Integrated Microscopy Imaging

Nikon Instruments, Inc. today announced the launch of the latest version of its industry-leading microscopy acquisition and analysis software -- NIS-Elements. When paired with Nikon's new Eclipse Ti inverted microscope series, NIS-Elements' latest version enables exceptional image data throughput and multi-dimensional image capture routines that advance productivity and minimize photobleaching and cell phototoxicity.

29 Nov 2007

New Nikon Camera Represents an Evolution to High Resolution Microscopy

Nikon Instruments, Inc. today unveiled the latest entry in its Digital Sight line of cameras for microscopy, the DS-Ri1 camera, designed for high resolution color documentation applications. It is an evolution to the DXM1200 series of cameras, retaining several of the DXM1200's key features while adding several improvements in connectivity, color rendition and performance.

29 Nov 2007

Resolve Optics Provides Camera Manufacturers Supply Security and Competitive Advantages

Resolve Optics Ltd. specialises in OEM lens design and manufacture for company's faced with replacing hard to source or obsolete optical components within camera, sensor and instrument systems.

From Resolve Optics Ltd. 29 Nov 2007

Chalmers Integrates Receiver for High Frequency Applications

As the first research group in the world, researchers at Chalmers have succeeded in combining a receiver for high frequencies with an antenna on a small chip.

28 Nov 2007

US Patent Office Allows Application for Spectral Imaging of Deep Tissue by CRi

Cambridge Research & Instrumentation (CRi) announced today that the United States Patent Office has issued a notice of allowance for their patent application number 10/669,101, for Spectral Imaging of Deep Tissue.

28 Nov 2007

NIST Laser-Based Ranging System to Test Performance of Automobile Collision Warning Systems

Engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed and tested a laser-based ranging system to assess the performance of automobile collision warning systems.

28 Nov 2007

Research Predicts Global Market for Photonic Crystals to Worth $666 million in 2013

According to a new technical market research report, Photonic Crystals: Technology and Global Markets (AVM059A) from BCC Research, the global market for photonic crystals will be worth $13.9 million in 2007. This will increase to $32 million in 2008 and $666.4 million by 2013, a compound average annual growth rate (CAGR) of 84%.

28 Nov 2007