Michelson Diagnostics (MDL) has announced new high-speed imaging capability for its EX1301 optical coherence tomography (OCT) microscope.
OCT images can be captured at up to 40 frames per second (fps), enabling imaging of dynamic processes such as the heartbeat of a fruit-fly.
The company said this capability will prove useful for biologists researching the genetic origins of heart disease.
The processing software is four times faster than the previous version, and was originally developed for MDL's handheld OCT scanner, which is due for launch in late spring/early summer 2009.
Actual frame rates depend on the image width: from 7.5fps (image width 1,250 pixels), to 40fps (image width 125 pixels).
