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Breakthrough Greatly Enhance Applications Ranging from Security Screening to Chemical Sensing

Engineers and applied physicists from Harvard University have demonstrated the first room-temperature electrically-pumped semiconductor source of coherent Terahertz (THz) radiation, also known as T-rays.

19 May 2008

Agreement Granting Sony Right to Use 3M Optical Film Technology

3M announced today that 3M and Sony Corporation have signed a license agreement that grants Sony the right to use certain 3M optical film technology in its prismatic films for LCD TV products.

17 May 2008

RIT Effort Could Extend NASA Science Capabilities for Planetary Applications

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 Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory.

15 May 2008

Richardson Electronics Adds to its Multi-Modality Display Portfolio

The FP2202CHBP (2MP) and FP2080CHBP (3MP) offer exceptionally high brightness and contrast ratios, making them ideal for diagnostic imaging and clinical applications requiring a fusion of grayscale and color imaging, such as PET, 3D, Cardiology and Nuclear Medicine.

15 May 2008

Widescreen Display Brings Enhanced Color/Grayscale to Hospitals

NEC Display Solutions of America, a leading stand-alone provider of commercial and residential LCD, plasma displays and projectors, today announced the 30-inch MultiSync® MD304MC widescreen display, designed exclusively for the demanding needs of medical diagnostic professionals.

15 May 2008

First Multi-Contrast System Introduced for Computed Tomography

Following the introduction of the first-ever dual-source CT system, Somatom Definition, with two X-ray tubes that simultaneously generate different energies, Siemens Healthcare has developed ten dual-energy applications. At the 10th Annual International Symposium on Multidetector-Row CT in Las Vegas to be held from May 13 to 16, 2008, Siemens will present its Optimum Contrast software, which brings new levels of contrast to sectional images created with dual-energy applications.

14 May 2008

Technique Could Revolutionize Human Protein Imaging

Protein crystallographers have only scratched the surface of the human proteins important for drug interactions because of difficulties crystallizing the molecules for synchrotron x-ray diffraction.

13 May 2008

Significantly Reduce Development Period of Image Interface and Processing Algorithm

Tokyo Electron Device Limited (TED) has today announced the inrevium "TB-3S-1400AN-IMG/TB-3S-3400DSP-IMG", an imaging application evaluation platform equipped with Xilinx Spartan-3 AN/A-DSP FPGA.

13 May 2008

The World’s First High Definition CT Scanner

GE Healthcare, a global leader in imaging and in dose reduction technologies, has announced U.S. Food + Drug Administration (FDA) clearance of the LightSpeed CT750 HD, the world's first high definition CT scanner. LightSpeed CT750 HD will set the new standard for CT clarity, delivering the vision and the tools to allow clinicians to diagnose quickly and confidently.

13 May 2008

Soldering Optical Components Instead of Gluing

Lenses in optical devices are kept in place by adhesives. This can cause problems when the microscopes and cameras are employed inside a vacuum, as the adhesives may release gases that contaminate the lenses. One alternative is to solder them instead.

13 May 2008