New optical imaging technology using NIR developed at Tufts University School of Engineering (Boston, MA, USA) could give doctors new ways to both identify breast cancer and monitor individual patients’ response to initial treatment of the disease. A five-year clinical study of the procedure, funded by a $3.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, is now underway at Tufts Medical Center.
News Blog: September 2012
Posted: 27 September 2012
Posted: 26 September 2012
The United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) has selected the Thermo Scientific TruScan RM and microPHAZIR RX instruments to support its recent initiative to provide approved libraries to pharmaceutical manufacturers.
Posted: 25 September 2012
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd and Kwansei Gakuin University have jointly developed a tablet coating inspection technology and a polymeric organic material inspection technology, using Sumitomo Electric's Compovision imaging system. This system enables high-speed measurement in a wide range of wavelengths and zonal measurement.
Posted: 20 September 2012
Perten’s Inframatic 9500 has received approval for grain trading in Australia from the National Measurement Institute.
Posted: 20 September 2012
The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) have featured a paper published in JNIRS—Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy in the September 2012 issue of their Agricultural Research magazine.
Posted: 17 September 2012
At the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Centers in San Diego, CA, USA. Jelana Stojanovic, PhD, was awarded the Research Award for Best Poster for “Neuroimaging and Cognition using Nearest Infrared Spectroscopy in Multiple Sclerosis”.
Posted: 1 September 2012
A FieldSpec 4 instrument (ASD, Boulder, CO, USA) to characterise both inorganic and organic materials (pigments and binders) on a number of illuminated manuscripts in order to inform interdisciplinary research and finally provide details of the artistic, cultural, political, social and economic environments in which the manuscripts were created.
