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Cover Picture: Real‐time mid‐infrared imaging of living microorganisms (J. Biophotonics 1‐2/2016)
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of biophotonics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.877
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1864-0648
pISSN - 1864-063X
DOI - 10.1002/jbio.201670010
Subject(s) - biophotonics , video graphics array , cover (algebra) , computer science , computer graphics (images) , infrared , physics , nanotechnology , optics , materials science , laser , software , operating system , engineering , mechanical engineering
Reagent‐free, real‐time imaging of unstained, living organisms is performed using a custom built mid‐infrared microscope. The unique combination of a tunable quantum cascade laser as a radiation source with a microbolometer array for detection enables the imaging of a VGA standard 640 × 480 pixel area with a frame rate of 50 frames per second. This performance of the mid‐infrared microscope is exemplified using living Caenorhabditis elegans and Amoeba proteus . Further details can be found in the article by Katharina Haase et al. on pp. 61–66 .