Electro-optic modulators, which can switch light on and off within just picoseconds, are enabling ever faster telecommunication over fibre optics, and the same tools have now been harnessed for high-speed and accurate molecular sensing in the near infrared.
News Blog: December 2015
Using a portable fNIRS device developed at Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA, have identified differences in brain activation patterns associated with postural stability in people with Parkinsonian syndromes and healthy adults.
ChromaDex and American Laboratories have announced the release of a Fourier transform near infrared (FT-NIR) spectroscopy based identification method for the positive identification of desiccated bovine and porcine glandular tissues used in nutritional product formulations
Brazilian scientists have used NIR spectroscopy to monitor the phase charges that take place when mixtures of compounds are exposed to high temperatures and pressures.
