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Global Innovations: Photonics/Optics
A research team from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) developed a multi-spectral, super-low-dose photoacoustic microscopy system with a significant improvement in the system sensitivity limit, enabling new biomedical applications and clinical translation in the future.
Global Innovations: Photonics/Optics
Researchers have developed an ultra-tiny endo-microscope that could help improve breast cancer treatment and cut NHS waiting lists.
Briefs: Medical
Researchers have created a flexible needle-like endoscopic imaging probe that can acquire 3D microscopic images of tissue.
Features: Test & Measurement
Real-time imaging at high speeds faces three primary challenges.
Briefs: Imaging
A deep-learning framework transforms images of intact skin acquired by an emerging noninvasive optical technology.
R&D: Materials
Researchers developed a method to bond human skin to rubber-like polymeric materials without an adhesive.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Understanding application, use case, and image resolution are key.
Briefs: Imaging
Negative-Stiffness Vibration Isolation Facilitates Neuronal Research into Animal Learning and Memory
Micro- and nano-level microscopy, whether used in academic laboratories or industry, is susceptible to vibrations from the environment,...
R&D: Medical
A new microscope system can image living tissue in real time and in molecular detail, without any chemicals or dyes. The system uses precisely tailored pulses of light to simultaneously image with...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Like sandblasting at the nanometer scale, focused beams of ions ablate hard materials to form intricate three-dimensional patterns. The beams can create tiny features in the lateral...
Briefs: Imaging
Photon counting detectors with high spatiotemporal resolution are key tools of imaging techniques where picosecond timing and micrometer position imaging are required, such as time...
Briefs: Medical
In regenerative medicine, the ideal repair material would offer properties that seem impossibly contradictory. It must be rigid and robust enough to be manipulated...
R&D: Medical
Electron Microscope Measures With Atomic Resolution
Capturing all transmitted electrons allows quantitative measurement of a material’s properties, such as internal electric and magnetic fields, which are important for use of the material in memory and electronics applications. A research group at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, has developed and...
Briefs: Medical
In a study led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), epitaxy, or growing crystalline film layers that are templated by a crystalline substrate, is a...
Briefs: Medical
Cracks in ceramic capacitors, devices that store electric charge in electronic circuits, can cause damage to such disparate objects as medical implants and spacecraft. The cracks, which are often hidden...
R&D: Medical
Handheld Microscope Spots Cancerous Cells
Mechanical engineers from the University of Wisconsin are building a handheld microscope to help doctors and dentists distinguish between healthy and cancerous cells. The tool captures details up to a half millimeter beneath the tissue surface, where some types of cancerous cells originate.
Briefs: Medical
The deleterious effects of microgravity are undeniable: reduced bone mineral density, muscle atrophy, vascular remodeling, etc. These health issues...
Briefs: Medical
New method allows for fast, functional imaging.
Oncology researchers rely on high-resolution imaging to see tumors and other activity deep within body tissues. Using a new high-speed, high-resolution...
Briefs: Medical
A team of scientists at Vanderbilt University have achieved the first “image fusion” of mass spectrometry and microscopy, which, they say, could dramatically improve the diagnosis and treatment of...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The need to image nanostructures and chemical reactions down to nanometer resolution requires a new class of x-ray microscope that can perform precision microscopy experiments using ultra-bright...
R&D: Medical
Scientists seeking an inexpensive way to turn a cell phone into a high powered, high quality microscope that can be used to identify biological samples in the field, turned to a colleague at the U.S....
Global Innovations: Materials
Ithree Institute, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia http://www.ithreeinstitute.uts.edu.au/about/index.html
Understanding the enemy, in this case, bacteria...
R&D: Photonics/Optics
Nearly all lenses, whether natural, like the lens in your eye, or man-made, such as in a camera or microscope, are curved, which limits the amount of light that enters. But, using a spray-on...
Applications: Electronics & Computers
Today, a wide array of laser technologies support an amazingly diverse range of medical and biomedical applications. In fact, it would take a large volume to discuss all...
Global Innovations: Medical
Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria www.tuwien.ac.at/en
D r. Saideh Saghafi at the Institute for Solid State Electronics at the Vienna University of Technology has developed the...
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Custom integration of original equipment manufacturer (OEM) products can be complex, particularly for medical device integrators that build diagnostic instruments incorporating numerous optical...
Briefs: Medical
Scanning probe microscopy (SPM) is an important tool for performing measurements at the nanoscale in imaging bacteria or proteins in biology, as...
Mission Accomplished: Medical
How does life begin and evolve? Does life exist elsewhere in the universe? What is the future of life on Earth and beyond?
Briefs: Medical
Enhancing Tumor Drug Delivery by Laser-Activated Vascular Barrier Disruption
An obstacle to successful cancer drug therapy is the existence of drug delivery barriers, which result in insufficient and heterogeneous drug delivery to the tumor tissue. This drug delivery problem not only limits the clinical application of existing chemotherapeutics,...
Top Stories
INSIDER: Medical
Portable, Blood-Based Device Detects Colon Cancer
Blog: Government
U.S. Tariffs: Implications and Strategies for Medtech Manufacturers
INSIDER: Medical
Novel Leadless Pacemaker Prevents Invasive Surgeries
INSIDER: Medical
Smart Sensor Enables Better Wound Healing
R&D: Materials
Sensitive Ceramics for Robotics, Prosthetics
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Ask the Expert
Eric Dietsch on the Benefits of Nitinol Wire
In collaboration with the Fort Wayne Metals Engineering team, Eric Dietsch focuses on supporting customers with material recommendations, product development, and education. Eric is available to help you and your company with any Nitinol-related questions or needs that you may have.
Webcasts
Upcoming Webinars: Connectivity
Enhancing Security in Connected Medical Devices
Podcasts: Medical
The FDA’s Role in Medical Device Cybersecurity
Podcasts: Connectivity
Best Practices for Securing Medical Devices
Podcasts: Medical
Interoperability in IoMT: Overcoming the Connectivity Barriers
Podcasts: Wearables
The Integration of Sensors into Next-Generation Health Devices
Podcasts: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Inside Story
Inside Story: Establishing Safe EO Sterilization for Medical Devices
To find out more about the expertise required to establish a safe and effective EO Sterilization for medical devices, MDB recently spoke with Elizabeth Sydnor, director of microbiology for Eurofins Medical Device Testing (Lancaster, PA).
