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BK Medical Bags Frost + Sullivan Award for Flex Focus 700 Ultrasound System

Being a part of Analogic's ultrasound group, BK Medical declared that it has won the 2011 Frost & Sullivan North American Product Differentiation Excellence of the Year Award for Surgical Ultrasound Market.

31 Dec 2011

ICMIC Receives $8M to Upgrade Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer Using Advance Imaging Tools

Johns Hopkins progresses on a research initiative for a five- year period with a group of cancer imaging specialists to hasten the improvement of early detection, diagnosis and advanced, innovative treatments for prostate, breast, and other widespread cancers.

30 Dec 2011

Successful Accomplishment of Cryogenic Testing of WEBB Telescope Mirrors

Cryogenic testing for the last six primary mirror segments and a secondary mirror has been accomplished, and is all set to take wings on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

23 Dec 2011

Advanced Touch Screen Technology Opens New Doors to the Student Community

The University of Leicester's School of Museum Studies in association with the British Museum provides innovative opportunities for students as they switch from using printed handouts and currently employs tablet computers, as a result of venture in new technology.

22 Dec 2011

Northrop Grumman Provides Fiber-Optic INS-GPS System for US Navy Helicopter

The US Navy, Naval Air Systems Command based in Patuxent River, has awarded a follow-on contract for Northrop Grumman to provide laboratory test and integration support for the LN-251 embedded fiber-optic inertial navigation system (INS)/ global positioning system (GPS), which is installed on the latest Sikorsky Aircraft's CH-53K Super Stallion helicopter.

21 Dec 2011

NASA Grant to Boston Micromachines to Support Exoplanet Imaging Research

Boston Micromachines, a manufacturer of MEMS deformable mirrors (DMs) for use in adaptive optics systems, has declared that the Small Business Innovation Research Program of NASA has awarded a $125,000 Phase 1 contract to Boston Micromachines for assisting the exoplanet imaging research, a major objective of NASA.

From Boston Micromachines Corporation 21 Dec 2011

The World's First Scientific Grade Camera with an InGaAs Focal Plane Array

Princeton Instruments is pleased to introduce the PIoNIR:640, the world’s first scientific-grade camera to utilize a deep-cooled InGaAs (indium gallium arsenide) focal plane array.

From Teledyne Princeton Instruments 20 Dec 2011

Unveiling ‘ImarisVantage’, Module of Imaris7.4 for Range of Microscopy Image Data

Bitplane, a producer and supplier of visualization and analysis software as well as three-dimensional and four-dimensional image processing has declared the introduction of their novel Imaris 7.4 software.

16 Dec 2011

NEC Develops Super-resolution Technologies for Magnification Enhancement in Surveillance Cameras

NEC has declared that super- resolution technologies have been devised to enable fine magnification for images like license plates and faces of individuals from surveillance cameras.

From NEC 16 Dec 2011

New Approach to Microlenses Made from Protein Gels

For miniaturized technical devices, microscale lenses with a similar adaptable focus could be an advantage. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, Hong-Bo Sun and a team from Jilin University (China) have described a new approach to the production of adjustable microlenses made from protein gels.

From John Wiley and Sons - Scientific Publishers 15 Dec 2011