Greg Blackman looks at how SWIR spectral imaging can help reduce plastic pollution, both through environmental surveys and by improving sorting in recycling plants
Medical
Isorg raises €24m to advance printed large-area image sensor development
French company Isorg, which specialises in printed organic photodetectors and large-area image sensors, has raised €24 million in a Series B financing round
Jadak buys Imaging Solutions Group to bolster machine vision portfolio
US firm Imaging Solutions Group has been bought by Jadak, a business unit of Novanta. Through the acquisition, Jadak has added ISG’s smart cameras and imaging systems to its product portfolio
Body image
Keely Portway looks at some of the miniature imaging technology used in endoscopes
Carbon nanotube applications and luminescence-based imaging with SWIR cameras

Examples of how deeply cooled scientific SWIR InGaAs cameras are being used as enabling technologies for luminescence-based imaging of nanotubes
JAI white paper: How does prism technology help to achieve superior colour image quality?

ULS24 ultra-low-light CMOS bio-optical sensor
Anitoa Systems, a Menlo Park CA startup since 2012, has announced the volume production release of its single chip ultra-low-light CMOS bio-optical sensor, ULS24
Med Ace
Basler presents its first dedicated camera series for medical and life sciences: the Basler Med Ace
MediSens conference 2018
MediSens provides a forum for discussions between the clinical and technical community, improving imaging technologies for cancer diagnosis and treatment. The meeting gives clinicians a chance to share their perspectives and find solutions from the medical physics and engineering community. Our speakers will present on a range of sensor technologies and development requirements for high quality, reliable imaging.
The robot will see you now
Rob Ashwell examines how advances in medical imaging are aiding earlier diagnosis and robotic surgery
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Keely Portway looks at some of the new imaging techniques advancing biological investigation
Matthew Dale explores the new 3D vision tools that are enabling automated bin picking
Theia Technology’s Mark Peterson outlined the benefits of rectilinear lenses at AIA’s vision solutions conference. Greg Blackman reports
As AMD buys Xilinx and Nvidia acquires Arm, we ask two industry experts what this could mean for the vision sector
Greg Blackman reports on how the heads of AIA, VDMA Machine Vision, EMVA, and UKIVA assess the impact of the pandemic on the vision sector