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World's fastest camera relies on new type of imaging, takes 6 million frames per second

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (23) | comments 3

Ultrafast, light-sensitive video cameras are needed for observing high-speed events such as shockwaves, communication between living cells, neural activity, laser surgery and elements of blood analysis. To catch such elusive ...





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New imaging method lets scientists 'see' cell molecules more clearly

Biology /

created Jan 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Scientists have always wanted to take a closer look at biological systems and materials. From the magnifying glass to the electron microscope, they have developed ever-increasingly sophisticated imaging devices.


New technique improves outcome for living donor liver transplants

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 18, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The University of Alberta Hospital (UAH) is one of only a few centers in Canada that perform living donor liver transplantation, a surgical procedure developed in the late 1980s that expands the organ donor pool. About 80 ...


Researcher Finds Early Photon Imaging Detects Lung Cancer

Researcher Finds Early Photon Imaging Detects Lung Cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 08, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A novel, high-resolution fluorescence imaging system may be used to detect lung cancer at early stages. According to a report recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...


New X-ray technique may lead to better, cleaner fuel injectors for automobiles

New X-ray technique may lead to better, cleaner fuel injectors for automobiles

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 19, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Standard microscopy and visible light imaging techniques cannot peer into the dark and murky centers of dense-liquid jets, which has hindered scientists in their quest for a full understanding of liquid breakup ...


Classifying 'clicks'

Classifying 'clicks'

Other Sciences / Other

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new way to classify sounds in some human languages may solve a problem that has plagued linguists for nearly 100 years--how to accurately describe click sounds distinct to certain African languages.


Variations in blood circulation immediately visible with fast camera

Variations in blood circulation immediately visible with fast camera

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Burns or other disorders that disrupt the blood flow in tissues will soon be easier to assess thanks to a camera that is capable of imaging blood circulation in real time. Compared to an earlier ...


LIDAR imaging detector could build 'super road maps' of planets and moons

Technology / Engineering

created May 15, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Technology that could someday “MapQuest” Mars and other bodies in the solar system is under development at Rochester Institute of Technology’s Rochester Imaging Detector Laboratory (RIDL), in collaboration with Massachusetts ...


Teeny-tiny X-ray vision

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The tubes that power X-ray machines are shrinking, improving the clarity and detail of their Superman-like vision. A team of nanomaterial scientists, medical physicists, and cancer biologists at the University of North Carolina ...


Novel computed imaging technique uses blurry images to enhance view

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 21, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (16) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a novel computational image-forming technique for optical microscopy that can produce crisp, three-dimensional images from blurry, out-of-focus ...


Philips announces breakthrough in fully digital light detection technology

Philips announces breakthrough in fully digital light detection technology

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Royal Philips Electronics today announced that its scientists have developed a highly innovative digital silicon photomultiplier technology that will allow faster and more accurate photon (the basic quantum ...



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