News tagged with laser imaging

British government to fund 3D laser cameras for highway crash site investigations

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the banes of modern existence is surely the time spent in traffic backups. Oftentimes these backups occur as the result of accidents and the resulting investigative work that goes on ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 02, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

'Label-free' imaging tool tracks nanotubes in cells, blood for biomedical research

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have demonstrated a new imaging tool for tracking structures called carbon nanotubes in living cells and the bloodstream, which could aid efforts to perfect their use in biomedical ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Manchester jet engine project takes FLITES

FLITES (Fibre-Laser Imaging of Gas Turbine Exhaust Species ) aims to establish a world-leading capability to map several exhaust species from aeroplanes using tomographic imaging.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tokyo tech fair opens with robotic clapping of hands

From robotic hand-clapping arms to a device that could show tsunami alerts in the sky, Japanese technology researchers showcased their latest inventions in Tokyo Thursday.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Brightest gamma ray on Earth -- for a safer, healthier world

The brightest gamma ray beam ever created- more than a thousand billion times more brilliant than the sun- has been produced in research led at the University of Strathclyde- and could open up new possibilities ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

New imaging technique visualizes cancer during surgery

Ovarian cancer is one of the most frequent forms of cancer that affect women. As tumors can initially grow unchecked in the abdomen without causing any major symptoms, patients are usually diagnosed at an advanced stage and ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Near-infrared imaging system shows promise as future pancreatic cancer diagnostic tool

A team of researchers from four Boston-area institutions led by Nicusor Iftimia from Physical Sciences, Inc. has demonstrated for the first time that optical coherence tomography (OCT), a high resolution optical ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Aug 17, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Coherent diffractive imaging in living color

(PhysOrg.com) -- Exactly 150 years after the first color photograph was produced, scientists have devised a way of employing the full spectrum of colors from synchrotron and free-electron laser x radiation ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Aug 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

NASA says Mars mountain will read like 'a great novel'

The US space agency's unmanned Curiosity rover will explore a mountain on Mars that should read like "a great novel," revealing if signs of life ever existed on the red planet, NASA said Friday.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 22, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

University of Brighton design students makes biking safer with BLAZE projection system

(PhysOrg.com) -- Emily Brooke, a design student at the University of Brighton, may just be the best friend that a biker has ever had. Anyone who has tried to ride a bike on crowded city streets knows how much ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jun 13, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 7 | with audio podcast weblog

New imaging tech promising for diagnosing cardiovascular disease, diabetes

Researchers have developed a new type of imaging technology to diagnose cardiovascular disease and other disorders by measuring ultrasound signals from molecules exposed to a fast-pulsing laser.

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Perfect welds for car bodies

Surface welding instead of penetration welding, allows a laser to produce a weld that is only visible on one side. But how do you control the laser power to prevent it burning a hole through the sheets of ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A breakthrough for terahertz semiconductor lasers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Potential applications, says an engineering professor, include disease diagnosis and detection of concealed explosives.

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 13, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (11) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Iowa State engineer and Goodrich partner to develop next-generation fuel nozzle diagnostic systems

A green laser flashed across the high-pressure spray that fuels a jet engine. Those flashes, some just 50 millionths of a second apart, froze the droplets for a camera to record and a computer to analyze.

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Rotating light provides indirect look into the nucleus

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is one of the best tools for gaining insight into the structure and dynamics of molecules because nuclei in atoms within molecules will behave differently in a variety of chemical environments. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 30, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast