News tagged with laser imaging

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

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

See your photos in 3D on new website

(PhysOrg.com) -- You could turn your holiday snaps or favourite figurines into three-dimensional images with new free software developed by a researcher from Queensland University of Technology and the Australasian ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 7

Augmented reality windshield from GM to show drivers potential hazards (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- General Motors and scientists from the University of Southern California and Carnegie Mellon University are developing a windshield display that will highlight obstacles or objects on the ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Mar 19, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (13) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Two Retinal Imaging Display Devices at Prototype Stage

(PhysOrg.com) -- NEC and Brother are both developing wearable prototype devices that use Retinal Imaging Display (RID) technology to project images directly on the wearer's retina. NEC's gadget is designed ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (29) | comments 9 weblog

Virtual ghost imaging: New technique enables imaging even through highly adverse conditions

Ghost imaging (GI), and its even more oddly named cousin virtual ghost imaging (VGI), seem to contradict conventional wisdom by being able to image an object by simply counting photons in a "light bucket." This non-intuitive ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

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

Image or mirror image? Chiral recognition by femtosecond laser

(PhysOrg.com) -- It is not always easy to distinguish between images and mirror images of molecules, but this knowledge is important when one image of a molecule is a drug and the mirror image is toxic. One ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

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

'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

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

nanoLAMPS created for use as molecular probes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Rohit Bhargava of the University of Illinois has come up with an intriguing new class of molecular probes for biomedical research called nanoLAMPs. Unlike most probes used in biomedicine or other types of ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 28, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Lasers generate underwater sound

Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are developing a new technology for use in underwater acoustics. The new technology uses flashes of laser light to remotely create underwater sound. The new ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 04, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 6