Keyword: Optics

Photonics/​Optics

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Global Innovations: Photonics/Optics
Researchers have developed an ultra-tiny endo-microscope that could help improve breast cancer treatment and cut NHS waiting lists.
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Supplements: Photonics/Optics
In our summer edition of the MDB Resource Guide, learn about new cleaning requirements and find the right company to match your medical-design needs.
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Products: Imaging
The new products and services in November 2022.
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R&D: Medical

Scientists have designed tiny smart bed sensors embedded in hospital mattresses could put an end to painful and potentially life-threatening pressure sores, thanks to new technology. The...

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Briefs: Design
Using the device, assorted functional imaging was demonstrated to satisfy clinical needs.
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Global Innovations: Photonics/Optics

Researchers have successfully developed a novel optical fiber design allowing the generation of rainbow laser light in the molecular fingerprint...

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INSIDER: Photonics/Optics

Researchers have developed a new kind of ultrasensitive optical sensing instrument. It combines the advantages of the two types of interferometers that are currently...

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White Papers: Medical
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Endoscopy and CMOS

Endoscopy enables minimally invasive diagnosis and treatment of a variety of conditions, from cancers to heart disease. Although endoscopy has existed for decades, legacy technology based on charge-coupled device (CCD)...

Features: Photonics/Optics

Fluorescence endoscopy is becoming increasingly important in many medical diagnostic tests. Based on the molecular absorption of light, this technique works by revealing...

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Features: Medical

Over the last few decades, additive manufacturing (AM)/ 3D printing has fundamentally changed the way that manufacturers approach product development. Industry is now...

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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A complete optical path minimizes signal crosstalk between detection channels.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Detecting nonuniformities in optical properties opens the door to new uses
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Briefs: Wearables
The material is optically transparent and easily manipulated.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
New optics-on-a-chip device paves way to capturing fast chemical, material, and biological processes.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The device infuses antibodies through the miniature fiber to the tumor to activate T cells around tumor cells.
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Briefs: Imaging
A deep-learning framework transforms images of intact skin acquired by an emerging noninvasive optical technology.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Light-based methods open many opportunities for medical applications.
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R&D: Lighting
The team designed an implant with LED emitters.
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News: Photonics/Optics

University of Colorado Boulder researchers have designed one of the most precise stopwatches – not for timing Olympic sprinters but for counting single photons, the tiny packets of...

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Technology Leaders: Electronics & Computers
Small medical electronics are at the forefront of a new round of technology trends involving printed circuit board (PCB) assembly and manufacturing.
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R&D: Nanotechnology
Researchers are creating new tools for a method called optogenetics, which shines light at specific neurons in the brain to excite or suppress activity.
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R&D: Materials
To make ultraviolet (UV)-detecting wearables, scientists have created a new type of light sensor that is both flexible and highly sensitive.
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Briefs: Imaging
The device combines near infrared light, time resolved spectroscopy, and diffuse correlation spectroscopy.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Understanding application, use case, and image resolution are key.
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R&D: Test & Measurement
A prototype of a fluorescence-based sensor provides continuous detection of cortisol concentrations in real time.
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Products: Photonics/Optics
EMI filters, plastic optic fibers, power modules, and more.
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Features: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Many new companies entering the market are planning a diagnostic roadmap of capabilities beyond their entry point of COVID-19 testing.
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R&D: Sensors/Data Acquisition
An optomechanical ultrasound sensor on a silicon photonic chip provides unprecedented sensitivity due to an innovative optomechanical waveguide.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The tool shows promise for imaging brain activity in 3D with high speed and contrast.
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Eric Dietsch on the Benefits of Nitinol Wire
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Rapid Precision Prototyping Program Speeds Medtech Product Development

Rapid prototyping technologies play an important role in supporting new product development (NPD) by companies that are working to bring novel and innovative products to market. But in advanced industries where products often make use of multiple technologies, and where meeting a part’s exacting tolerances is essential, speed without precision is rarely enough. In such advanced manufacturing—including the medical device and surgical robotics industries — the ability to produce high-precision prototypes early in the development cycle can be critical for meeting design expectations and bringing finished products to market efficiently.

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