Attendees will discuss about potential business opportunities in the photonic supply chain in the field tomographic imaging. Topics discussed will include optical coherence tomography (OCT), Raman spectroscopy, hyperspectral and diffuse reflectance imaging or fluorescence imaging.
Basler will be presenting current and future highlights in its camera portfolio for medical and life sciences at Analytica in Munich from 31 March to 3 April
The lens-free technology from CEA-Leti, which digitally reconstructs microscope images and will be presented at SPIE Photonics West, opens up fast, automated cell screening
Greg Blackman explores the cameras used to capture extremely rapid events
The German company Leica Microsystems and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory have signed a unique long-term framework collaboration agreement to provide new imaging technologies
Heart-shaped flow lines are formed in the flow cytometry setup. Copyright Zellmechanik Dresden
Scientists at the Dresden University of Technology have developed a high-speed imaging technique able to analyse cell samples 10,000 times faster than conventional methods
Dr Jonathan Taylor, University of Glasgow
A time-lapse 3D video of a zebrafish heart growing over a day has been captured for the first time by a new microscope imaging technique
Scientists at the Swiss technical university, EPFL, have combined hyperspectral imaging with metasurfaces – artificial materials covered in millions of nano-sized elements – to develop a label-free biosensing platform
Euresys and Vision Research have built a high-speed camera system for imaging flow cytometry
Hamamatsu Photonics has introduced the Orca-Fusion scientific CMOS camera
How will the world feed 10 billion people by 2050 with no new land for agriculture? Greg Blackman speaks to machine builder Bühler about how optical sensing can maximise yield in grain processing
Two robots have been installed at Aalborg University Hospital in Denmark. Credit: Kuka
Keely Portway looks at how robots are automating procedures in hospital testing laboratories, and how imaging underpins this
A setup for photometric stereo imaging in which multiple lights are used to illuminate an object from different directions. Credit: Advanced illumination
Matthew Dale explores the power of computational imaging, all made possible by clever illumination
Credit: Flir Systems
As demand for thermal imaging rises during the coronavirus pandemic, Greg Blackman asks how effective thermal cameras are at screening people for signs of fever
Greg Blackman speaks to Kieran Edge at the University of Sheffield's Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, about new vision projects and the presentation he is to give for UKIVA's vision technology hub, to be broadcast on 14 May
Stemmer Imaging's David Hearn has died after a long illness. Mark Williamson, corporate marketing director at the company, looks back at Hearn’s career
The appetite for vision and automation remains strong, but there is still a lot of uncertainty at the present time, were the views of the heads of the AIA, EMVA, VDMA Machine Vision, and UKIVA in a webinar
Chinese hospitals have ordered 2,000 UVD robots from Blue Ocean Robotics since the start of the pandemic. Credit: Blue Ocean Robotics
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of robotics and automation in many areas of manufacturing and society, according to CEOs of robotic firms in a webinar run by A3
