NIR Spectroscopy
Yet another wearable NIR device: this time underwater
Submitted by ianm on 9 December 2014 - 11:13am
Swimmers looking to monitor and improve technique and patients striving to heal injured muscles now have a new NIR-based tool to help reach their goals.
World Soil Day
Submitted by ianm on 9 December 2014 - 10:25am
Keith Shepherd has written an interesting blog post for World Soil Day (5 December 2014).
NIR news 2014 data analysis challenge
Submitted by ianm on 3 December 2014 - 3:04pm
This year, to help all of you with time to fill over the Christmas and New Year break, we have decided to offer a data analysis challenge. The problem to be solved is described in the text and the dataset may be downloaded from the Internet.
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Deadline near for 2015 Goetz Instrument Support Programme
Submitted by ianm on 7 October 2014 - 5:02pm
PANalytical Boulder is accepting submissions for the 2015 Alexander Goetz Instrument Support Program and the deadline for submissions is 15 October 2014.
Selected students pursuing a master’s or doctoral degree with innovating research proposals will be awarded a FieldSpec® 4 Standard-Res spectroradiometer or a FieldSpec HandHeld 2 spectroradiometer for a specified period of time. The spectroradiometers can be used by the students for a wide range of field research applications such as image interpretation, ground truthing, materials classification and ecological impact analyses.
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Early cancer diagnosis with NIR spectroscopy
Submitted by jonevans on 29 September 2014 - 11:24am
NIR spectroscopy could potentially be used to diagnose colorectal cancer, say Chinese scientists.
NIR is replacing x-rays in dentistry
Submitted by ianm on 28 July 2014 - 11:53am
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) using NIR light is being used to create high-resolution, 3-D images of teeth reducing the need for the use of X-rays.