The Korean National Agricultural Products Quality Management Service has purchased 49 units of the Foss Infratec 1241 near infrared grain analyser for rice labelling control.
News Blog: 2012
Posted: 2 October 2012
NASA and the US Geological Survey provide data from their Landsat satellites for free. This data is already used by farmers to monitor nitrogen levels in their fields and plan fertiliser application.
Posted: 2 October 2012
Novel, biocompatible nanoparticles luminesce in the NIR through more than 3 cm of biological tissue, demonstrating the promise of nanotechnology in biomedical imaging.
Posted: 1 October 2012
The short course programme at Pittcon 2013 has been announced.
Posted: 1 October 2012
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has been used to non-invasively map out the network of tiny blood vessels beneath the outer layer of patients’ skin, potentially revealing signs of disease. The researchers tested their system on a range of different skin conditions, including two cases of basal cell carcinoma. Compared to healthy skin, the network of vessels supplying blood to the tested lesions showed significantly altered patterns.
Posted: 27 September 2012
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.
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.
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