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Schnittstellenvielfalt für Kamerasysteme

Mit dem Fortschritt der Kameratechnik nimmt die Menge an Bilddaten, die zur Speicherung und Verarbeitung übertragen werden müssen, in allen Anwendungsbereichen ständig zu. Neben der Auflösung von Kamerasensoren steigt gleichzeitig die Bildwiederholrate und damit der Bedarf an einer schnellen und zuverlässigen Datenübertragung. PCO setzt nun auf eine Technologie des Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Instituts (HHI), um seine Kameras mit dem PC zu verbinden. Die Technologie wird dafür von der Missing Link Electronics (MLE) GmbH adaptiert.

Is Your Software Developer Kit a Solution or a Problem?

This article illustrates how camera SDKs are used and discusses attributes one should seek in both an SDK and the support system implemented by its supplier.

It also introduces PCO’s approach to SDK fit and functionality.

Is it true that cooled cameras are more sensitive than non-cooled cameras?

Reduction of temperature via cooling of image sensor components or electronic circuits in devices can improve image quality and performance.
But are cooled cameras more sensitive? What are the pros and cons of cooled cameras?

Camera-Based Solutions For High-Content Imaging

This article seeks to help readers identify both their needs and their options when implementing a new camera into a high-content system, empowering individuals who evaluate and test new imaging technology to make informed decisions.

Improving Microscopy And Biological Imaging With Backside Illuminated (BI) sCMOS Sensors

With greater sensitivity, speed, resolution, and dynamic range, a shift to cameras with backside-illuminated sCMOS sensors can provide extensive benefits to researchers, all at prices similar to existing equipment.

OEMs: Expand Your Product Portfolio With sCMOS Sensors

OEMs can enhance their products with expanded capabilities and attract customers by incorporating scientific CMOS sensor technology.

Understanding Camera-Based Ultraviolet Imaging And Applications

A new generation of advanced UV imaging cameras has opened the door to new applications and enhanced performance in existing applications.

Everything you always wanted to know about sCMOS cameras....

...but were afraid to ask is the new e-book on our sCMOS sensor technology.  Whether it's pixel size, camera sensitivity, industry standards or data transfer, the e-book gives you answers on the most frequently asked questions about sCMOS technology on more than 50 pages.

To See Or Not To See...Can Non-Cooled sCMOS Cameras Do the Job?

In the years since their first appearance in 2010, scientific cameras based on scientific CMOS image sensors have had a large impact on numerous new technologies and methods in microscopy. Practically all camera based methods employing super resolution and nanoscopy have made use of the ideal combination, of low readout noise, high quantum efficiency and high frame rates associated with a very convenient pixel pitch of 6.5 µm, which fit perfectly to many microscope applications. 

Geschwindigkeit ist keine Hexerei

Wie verarbeite ich 1GB/s Bilddaten bei sCMOS-Kameras?

Große Distanzen in Echtzeit

CameraLink HS mit faseroptischen Komponenten. Artikel aus invision 4/2016.

First Clinical Applications on the Horizon for FLIM

From microscopy of ocular diseases to imaging in neurosurgery to tomography in patients with skin cancer and brain tumors, flurorescence lifetime imaging microscopy is the versatile partner that can be teamed with a host of the other imaging techniques to produce striking results.

Piezo Drives in the Real-Time Autofocus System

High-Speed microscopy for quality control.

Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Made Easy

Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM), which measures the spatial distribution of the fluorescence decay, can be achieved either in the time or in the frequency domain. Each approach exhibits advantages and disadvantages, depending on the type of light detector and acquistiton method employed.

Über PCO

Ein Resultat des Innovationspreises, den PCO erhalten hat, ist dieser Artikel in der Wirtschaftszeitung.

Quantenwirkungsgrad - das neutrale Maß für Empfindlichkeit

Abstand halten - Was Sie über das Signal-Rausch-Verhältnis wissen sollten

sCMOS Cameras Examine Movements of Pathogens

Look Closer

PCO has been developing high-performance scientific cameras for over 25 years. Gerhard Holst explains how its sCMOS image sensors are aiding scientific advancement

Schnell wie der Blitz

Hochgeschwindigkeitskamera spürt Hochspannungsüberschlag auf - Auf dem Versuchsfeld der Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen in Regensburg werden Laststufenendschalter für Leistungstransformatoren unter Extrembedingungen gestestet und präzise von Hochschwindigkeitskameras überwacht. Mit 10.000 Bildern pro Sekunde spüren diese Überschläge auf. Ein Triggersignal zeigt an, auf welchen Bildern der Überschlag sichtbar ist.

High-speed Microscopy

Scientific CMOS camera technology: A breeding ground for new microscopy techniques

In 2009 a new type of complimentary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) imagesensorwas developed by a a consortium of three companies: Fairchild Imaging (now a division of BAE Systems), Andor Technology and PCO [1]. At the time the partners decided to call the device a scientific CMOS (sCMOS for short) image sensor to make clear from the very beginning that the performance data of this new type of sensor would be very different from the usual standard CMOS image sensor. The combination of high sensitivity, low readout noise, high frame rate, high resolution and high dynarnic range did not exist before, not even within the commonly used cooled CCD and electron multiplying CCD cameras, which were widely available for microscopy.

Lifetime reloaded

Determination of fluorescence lifetime made easy. Lifetime or decay rate relates to the phenomenon of fluorescence. This process, photoluminescence, is widely utilized across many areas, for tagging cells and cell fragments in order to observe metabolic processes, for differentiating between reaction products or for the characterization of any parameters that induce a change in the fluorescence.

Lifetime reloaded (DE)

Fluoreszenzabklingzeiten mit weniger Aufwand bestimmen. Lifetime, Lebensdauer oder Abklingzeit sind Begriffe, die mit dem Phänomen der Fluoreszenz, der spontanen Emission von Licht kurz nach der Anregung des Materials, zu tun haben. Dieser Vorgang, die sogenannte Photolumineszenz, wird heutzutage in vielen Bereichen genutzt, um Zellen oder Zellbestandteile zu markieren, um Stoffwechselprozesse zu visualisieren, um Reaktionsprodukte zu differenzieren oder um mithilfe der Änderung der Lumineszenz andere Parameter wie zum Beispiel den Sauerstoffpartialdruck zu messen.

Gefräßige Schwimmer

Bewegungen der Schlafkrankheitserreger analysiert. Es ist eine alte Seuche, und sie ist absolut tödlich: Der afrikanischen Schlafkrankheit, Trypanosomiasis genannt, fallen 30.000 Menschen pro Jahr sowie
ganze Büffel- und Rinderherden zum Opfer. Die existierenden Medikamente
sind veraltet und töten in jedem zehnten Fall nicht nur den Krankheitserreger,
sondern auch den Patienten. Die Erforschung der Leitstrukturen für
die Entwicklung besserer Medikamente haben sich Biologen der Universität
Würzburg zur Aufgabe gemacht.

Retrospektives Vermächtnis aus der Filmzeit

Die Normen der American Standards Association (ASA) sind ein Relikt aus Zeiten
des Negativ- und Dia-Films. Sie beschreiben die einstellbare Empfindlichkeit bei
digitalen Fotoapparaten und die maximale Empfindlichkeit bei Hochgeschwindigkeitskameras. Beide Angaben führen den Nutzer in die Irre.

3D im Vorbeiflug

Ein Blick aus der Vogelperspektive mit der Hochgeschwindigkeitskamera.

The Innovation of Images

An interview with the head of the research department of PCO.

25 years at the top

After a quarter century in the business, PCO is broadening its appeal beyond the research community.

Fluorescent Imaging of Optogenetic Pacemaker Cells for the Heart

Optogenetics uses light to stimulate geneitcally modified cells. Researchers at Stony Brook University plan to use these cells as optical cardiac pacemakers. A dedicated highspeed camera is being employed to monitor the work of the cells, providing relevant insight into the propagation patterns of the activation signal.

Bildsensoren – ist größer besser?

Digitale Kameras erobern zunehmend den Filmsektor. Das führt dazu, dass die Größe von Bildsensoren, die in digitalen Kamerasystemen eingesetzt werden, und deren Einfluss auf Bildqualität, Kameratechnik und gestalterische Möglichkeiten diskutiert wird. Die Autoren geben im Beitrag Antworten auf einige grundlegene Fragen. Digital cameras are capturing the film industry. This article considers the size of image sensors used in digital cameras and the effect these sensors have on image quality. It also looks at a wider range of camera technology and design options. The authors provide some answers regarding basic questions.

Die sCMOS-Welle

Im Sommer 2009 auf der Messe Laser - World of Photonics wurde der Öffentlichkeit ein neuartiger CMOS-Bildsensor mit einer einmaligen Kombination guter Leistungsparameter vorgestellt.

Bird's-eye view

The German Aerospace Center (DLR) has developed a camera that can take 3D  pictures of Earth. And it can do IT from a jet airplane traveling at very high speed.

3D mit 2000 Hz bei 300 km/h

High-Speed Videoanalyse für den Motorsport

Photo Finish

New digital cameras make image capture swifter and easier at Arnold Air Force Base ballistic range

Stereo Vision for Airbags

A new method allows for the creation of a 3D model of the airbag expansion process without the need for locally identifiable pattern codes

Scientific CMOS Camera

From Micro to Macro...

Wie groß darf‘s sein?

Pixelgröße beeinflusst Bildqualität und Empfindlichkeit von Bildsensoren.

sCMOS - die eierlegende Wollmilchsau der Bildsensorik?

Die neue Joint-Venture Technologie sCMOS ermöglicht eine Fülle von neuen wissenschaftlichen Kameraanwendungen.

Scientific CMOS-Bildsensor

Die neue Allzweck-Lösung der Bildaufnahme

Moderne CMOS-Sensoren und -Kameras für Hochgeschwindigkeits-Anwendungen

Durch enge Zusammenarbeit von Kamerahersteller und Halbleiterfertiger lassen sich kompakte Hochgeschwindigkeits-Kameras mit hoher Auflösung entwickeln. Mit Bildaufnehmern in CMOS-Architektur, hoher Parallelität und extremer Geometrie-Skalierung stoßen 4-Megapixel-Kameras mit 12 Bit Dynamik so bereits in die 1000fps-Klasse vor.

Noise in Imaging: the Good, the Bad, and the Right

For imaging applications, it's important to know what kind of noise you're dealing with.

Dunkelheit am Rande des Bildes

Großformatige Bildsensoren richtig anwenden.

New options for better systems

10 questions and answers about the chances and consequences of the new EMVA 1288 standard for camera system characterization.

Imaging system enhances skin-cancer detection

Vision Systems Design article about a new diagnostic system called Dyaderm (Bicoam GmbH), which helps in skin-cancer detection.

CMOS cameras rise to speed challenge

Cameras based on CMOS image sensors are providing a new cost-effective way to
perform high-speed imaging. Gerhard Holst describes the latest technology on offer.

Development and Application of a MHz Frame Rate

The ability to capture the unsteady dynamics of high speed compressible flows requires the use of ultra fast imaging diagnostics.

Fast Camera Images of Flux Ropes During Plasma Relaxation

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science - Images of visible light emission from flux ropes during plasma relaxation.

Bildaufnahme in der Zukunft

CCD- und CMOS-Sensoren heute und morgen.

Analysis of visible light images

Review of Scientific Instruments - Analysis of visible light images from a fast-gated intensified charge coupled device camera during flux rope interaction and magnetic reconnection

Ophtalmoscope enters digital age

Opto & Laser Europe - article about the application of a color pixelfly camera system in a new digital opthalmoscope.

Electron Multiplication CCDs Offer a Flexible Solution

The technology advances signal amplification but has its own limitations.

Camera Memory

Allows rapid data transfer - new technology bypasses PC storage.

12 Bit Dynamikumfang

Wo der Einsatz in der IBV effizient ist.

12-Bit-Kamerasysteme sind teurer als 8-Bit-Systeme. Sie liefern jedoch mehr Informationen. Beim Einsatz können zudem komplexe Verstärkungsregelungen und aufwändige Lichtquellen eingespart werden, so dass in der Gesamtbilanz ihr Einsatz effizienter sein kann. Von daher gibt es vor allem im Bereich der  Qualitätskontrolle eine Fülle sinnvoller Einsatzmöglichkeiten

Imaging on a Gland Scale

BioPhotonics - Some results of a study of the neuroendocrine system done with various microscope techniques and using a sensicam qe camera system.

PLIF technique for fuel visualization in engines and its role in retrofit technology

Colorado State University (CSU) Engines and Energy Conversion Laboratory (EECL) - Planar Laser Induced Fluorescence (PLIF) for combustion analysis using a dicam pro for measurements.

Fluorescence Imaging advances fuel-injector design

Laser Focus World - Planar Laser-Induced Fluorescence (PLIF) is used to improve the fule injection of an engine. The images were recorded with a dicam pro.

Red enables cell membrane study

BioPhotonics - Cell membrane investigations by fluorescence microscopy using a sensicam qe for the recording of images.

Camera captures spheromak plasmas

Photonics Spectra - The fusion of plasmas in an experimental spheromak reactor were imaged using a dicam pro.

A novel method for instantaneous, quantitative measurement of molecular mixing in gaseous flows

Experiments in Fluids 2002, No.33 - Laser induced fluorescence measurements using fluorescence and phosphorescence recorded with a dicam pro.

Study of Magnetic Helicity Injection via Plasma Imaging using a High-Speed Digital Camera

California Institute of Technology - The evolution of a plasma generated by a novel panar coaxial gun is photographed using a hsfc pro, which captures eight time resolved images per discharge.

A Laboratory Plasma Experiment for Studying Magnetic Dynamics of Accretion Discs and Jets

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - An hsfc pro reveals images of the formation and helical instability of a collimated plasma, similar to MHD models of disc jets and also plasma detachment associated with spheromak formation.

Transparent oxygen optodes in environmental applications at fine scale as measured by luminescence l

Proc. SPIE Vol. 4576 - The article shows various applications with a modular luminescence lifetime imaging system (MOLLI) and 2D and 3D mapping of oxygen with corresponding optodes. The system is based on a sensicam sensimod.

Luminescence Lifetime Imaging with Transparent Oxygen Optodes

Sensors & Actuators B - Imaging of the 2D distribution od oxygen using planar oxygen optodes and a modular luminescence lifetime imaging system (MOLLI) based on a sensicam seensimod camera system.

High-Speed Cameras

Laser Focus World - Specialized techniques based on high-speed digital imaging allow analysis of instantaneous impacts.

Getting better flow-structure information

NASA Tech Briefs - Digital particle image velocimetry using a sensicam double shutter.

Smear bei CCD-Sensoren

Smear bei CCD-Sensoren.

Optische Abbildung mit Einzel- & Tandem-Objektiven

Optische Abbildung mit Einzel- & Tandem-Objektiven

Lichtübertragung in einem Taper

Lichtübertragung in einem Taper

CCD-Technologie

Einführung in die CCD-Technologie.

CCD-Sensoren - Eigenschaften

Eigenschaften von CCD Sensoren.

Bildverstäker (Intensivierte) CCD-Kameras

Einführung in CCD-Kameras mit Bildverstärker.