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| The Bio-Optics World email newsletter covers business, application and technology news from the world of biomedical optics and imaging in the life sciences. The monthly newsletter also features a "focus on" section, with longer articles on a single topic microscopy, confoal imaging, or cancer diagnostics. Compiled by the Editors of Bio-Optics World, for delivery directly into your e-mail inbox once a month |
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Bio-Optics World is a bi-monthly magazine that provides news, analysis and explanation of applications involving lasers, optics and imaging systems in the life sciences. The magazine is dedicated to giving readers a firsthand look at cutting-edge research related to the design, development and utilization of optical technologies in the study, diagnosis and treatment of disease and disease processes. Bio-Optics World Magazine is published in electronic format. The electronic version is available by FREE subscription and can be downloaded as a PDF file from this website. Subscribers receive an email when each new issue is published. Your subscription also provides access to all archived issues of Bio-Optics World Magazine. |
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is exploding onto the medical diagnostics scene, offering the promise of fast, high-resolution imaging for a variety of clinical applications. According to “Optical Coherence Tomography -- Technology, Markets, and Applications: 2008-2012,” a new market research report from the publishers of Laser Focus World and BioOptics World, the global market for OCT systems is estimated to be $200 million and growing at an annual rate of 34%. |
Upcoming Webcasts |
Thin-film Interference Filters for Fluorescence Microscopy
This webinar describes spectral and non-spectral design considerations for optical filters for a wide variety of fluorescence microscopy applications. In addition, the fluorescence analysis tool called SearchLight™ will be brie...
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On Demand Webcasts |
Optical design fundamentals for bioimaging applications and systemsThis webcast will cover the basics of biomedical optics and optical engineering for various biomedical imaging approaches. |
Non-Medical Applications of OCT
n this webcast, Dr. Michael Leitner, head of the optical coherence tomography group at RECENDT - Research Center for Non Destructive Testing GmbH (Linz, Austria) discusses the application of OCT as a tool for microstructure ana...
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Gradient field microscopy and the future of clinical pathology
This webcast, presented by the developer of GFM, will discuss intrinsic contrast imaging in general, and QPI and GFM in particular. It will explore both operation and applications. It will also look at possibilities made availa...
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