NIR Spectroscopy
Telling green from blue with NIR spectroscopy
Submitted by jonevans on 1 March 2016 - 11:23am
Japanese researchers have used NIR spectroscopy to investigate whether the ability to classify colours into distinct categories, such as green and blue, is innate or a function of language.
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Sounds like NIR spectroscopy
Submitted by jonevans on 12 February 2016 - 12:28pm
Korean researchers have used functional NIR spectroscopy to investigate how the brain’s auditory cortex responds to various different sounds, from English speech to rain.
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Non-invasive measurement of blood glucose by infrared, but it is far-infrared
Submitted by ianm on 5 February 2016 - 12:23pm
A group of researchers from Tohoku University’s Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering has developed a method of measuring blood glucose using far infrared light.
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Call for ICNIRS and CNIRS Award Nominations
Submitted by ianm on 2 February 2016 - 10:53am
Award nominations are invited for the Tomas Hirschfeld Award, Gerald S. Birth Award and IDRC Travel Fellowships.
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Nothing like a ripe avocado
Submitted by jonevans on 29 January 2016 - 3:01pm
Agricultural scientists from South Africa have shown that NIR spectroscopy can accurately determine some of the characteristics used to tell the ripeness of avocados, but not all.
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Miniature NIR spectrometer
Submitted by ianm on 20 January 2016 - 9:38am
Pembroke Instruments have released the “QRed”, a version of their Qmini with a wavelength range of 900–2500 nm.
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