Sentences with phrase «contrast imaging»

«I believe they are probably the first ones to put all the pieces together for very high - contrast imaging instrument,» he adds.

Sandia's technique achieved X-ray phase contrast imaging in a lab without a synchrotron, an expensive piece of equipment the size of a football field.

Abstract: MICADO is a near - IR camera for the Europea ELT, featuring an extended field (75» diameter) for imaging, and also spectrographic and high contrast imaging capabilities.

Although it is ultimately aimed at being fed by the MCAO module called MAORY, MICADO will come with an internal SCAO system that will be complementary to it and wi... ▽ More MICADO is a near - IR camera for the Europea ELT, featuring an extended field (75» diameter) for imaging, and also spectrographic and high contrast imaging capabilities.

Current imaging at the HIC ranges from simple phase - contrast imaging of cells to high - resolution imaging of living tissue.

In the EDEN project we also utilize state - of - the - art high contrast imaging techniques to search for extrasolar planets in the solar neighborhood.

Recently, however, researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Graduate University (OIST) and Waseda University have been able to define its structure thanks to new, high - contrast imaging in cryo - electron microscopy.

Bing Yao, PhD, has been awarded a $ 560,000 grant from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society to study the association between cognitive fatigue and brain iron concentration, as estimated by MRI susceptibility contrast imaging.

«We experimented with a method, high - contrast imaging post processing, that astronomers have been relying on for years.

Sandia National Laboratories researcher Amber Dagel holds a calibration sample to be loaded into the labs» X-ray phase contrast imaging machine.

X-ray phase contrast imaging clearly shows the differences between the thin layers of zest and pith and how those layers look compared to the thick pulp.

X-ray phase contrast imaging measures not just the number of X-ray photons that get through the sample, as in conventional X-ray imaging, but also the phase of the X-rays after they pass through, offering a complete look at interfaces inside a structure.

Our coronagraphic long - slit spectroscopy was obtained with the new high contrast imaging platform VLT - SPHERE during Science Verification.

High contrast imaging with VLT / SPHERE

Despite the absence of a high - order high - bandwidth closed - loop AO system, observations conducted with SCExAO show that even in poor - to - moderate observing conditions, speckle nulling can be used to suppress static and slow speckles even in the presence of a brighter dynamic speckle halo, suggesting that more advanced high - contrast imaging algorithms developed in the laboratory can be applied to ground - based systems.

Initial data came from the TRENDS (TaRgetting bENchmark - objects with Doppler Spectroscopy) high - contrast imaging survey that uses adaptive optics and related technologies to target older, faint objects orbiting nearby stars, and precise measurements were made at the W. M. Keck Observatory on the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii.

Follow - up high - contrast imaging observations were then taken in 2012 using the NIRC2 instrument on the Keck II telescope with the adaptive optics system revealing the companion as shown above.

The instrument will be equipped with advanced high contrast imaging technologies embedded in a coronagraph with a deformable mirror, multi-star wavefront control, and specialized post-processing techniques.

By combining expertise from various fields — coronagraphy and high contrast imaging from solar physics, polishing, polarimetry and adaptive optics from astronomical communities and the experience of each institutional partner, this telescope will make significant advances in several fields.

But by using a unique, high - contrast imaging technique developed by Laurent Pueyo at the Space Telescope Science Institute, astronomers were able to resolve faint images of a large number of candidate companions.

, has been awarded a $ 560,000 grant from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society to study the association between cognitive fatigue and brain iron concentration, as estimated by MRI susceptibility contrast imaging.

SPHERE opens new horizons in the study of young brown dwarfs and giant exoplanets thanks to high - contrast imaging capabilities at optical and near - infrared wavelengths, as well as high signal - to - noise spectroscopy in the near - infrared from low (R ~ 30 - 50) to medium resolutions (R ~ 350).

This work proves, once again, the extremely high efficiency of Phase Contrast Imaging - now we just have to face the analysis of this huge volume of data».

Graham, James (2011) Direct Detection of Extra-solar Planets Using High Contrast Imaging and the Gemini Planet Imager, American Astronomical Society, url

X-ray phase contrast imaging could be used to inspect microfabrication packaging, integrated circuits or micro-electro-mechanical components and could be used to study ceramics, polymers, chemicals or explosives.

Sandia Labs» research began with a Laboratory Directed Research and Development project from 2014 - 2016 that demonstrated X-ray phase contrast imaging could show details where one material meets another.

Dagel is principal investigator for the labs» work into using X-ray phase contrast imaging to study low - density materials.

So Sandia borrowed and refined a technique being studied by the medical field, X-ray phase contrast imaging, to look inside the softer side of things without taking them apart.

GPI's high contrast imaging and polarimetry capabilities together were essential for this new synthesis.

Still, many of the nearby planets are detectable via three exoplanet hunting methods: planetary transits, high - contrast imaging, and stellar radial velocity measurements.

The team during sample installation before X ray Phase Contrast Imaging.