Reflectance

Beauty and grooming science evolves

...by Karen Kalla The optics of human skin are well understood, including how the skin's chromophore layers (melanin, hemoglobin, and collagen) generate reflectance in specific regions of the visible spectrum. However, how these phenomenon vary across populations, impact skin defects (e.g. under eye circles, age...

New Identafi(TM) 3000 Identifies Signs of Silent Killer:

...ctral Identafi(TM) technology platform allowed for development of a device that combines three separate wavelengths to visualize both fluorescence and reflectance images in the oral cavity," he said. "Trimira's oral cancer screening device can spot the location of pre-cancerous cells and determine the extent of ...

Sun Safety Champions Team Up With LPGA Tour Pro Paula Creamer

...ings, sun safety education and sun damage assessments utilizing ultraviolet reflectance units. Dermatologists, dermatology nurses, medical students, family members...lights include: -- 292 sun damage assessments were conducted utilizing UV reflectance units. -- 242 individuals participated in the sun damage assessment st...

SPO Medical Launching Enhanced PulseOx 7500(TM) Oximetry System

... markets: medical care; home and remote-care; sports and wellness; and safety and security. Its patented technology uses information gathered from the reflectance of light on the human blood stream, in a non-invasive manner, to monitor key vital signs. The Company distributes its products through a network of di...

New Jersey Dermatologist Volunteers Show Golf Enthusiasts How to Play Safe in the Sun

...to the public, resulting in a majority of people who said they would change their habits after viewing their sun damage with the ultraviolet reflectance camera unit. -- 15 LPGA Tour Players and 20 male caddies (a record number) participated in the skin cancer screenings. -- One caddie's story ...

SPO Medical Announces Entry into the Global Baby Monitor Consumer Market

...with an alarm call in the event that parental action is required. The Company's proprietary and patented technology uses information gathered from the reflectance of light, in a non-invasive manner, to monitor certain vital signs of the baby. Based on this proprietary technology, the baby monitor accurately and ...

SPO Medical Reports 2007 Sales: Growth of 35% Compared to 2006

... markets: medical care; home and remote-care; sports and wellness; and safety and security. Its patented technology uses information gathered from the reflectance of light on the human blood stream, in a non-invasive manner, to monitor key vital signs. The Company distributes its products through a network of di...

A pain-free window into painful neuropathies

...indow into a condition known as peripheral neuropathy. The team showed that reflectance confocal microscopy, a technology for looking just beneath the surface of t...ted in greater numbers of people, pointed out that the equipment needed for reflectance confocal microscopy is expensive, and mentioned the need to differentiate b...

SPO Medical Unveils New Oximetry Devices for European Markets

... markets: medical care; home and remote-care; sports and wellness; and safety and security. Its patented technology uses information gathered from the reflectance of light on the human blood stream, in a non-invasive manner, to monitor key vital signs. The Company distributes its products through a network of di...

Experimental technique at GUMC offers real-time analysis of breast cancer biopsies

... Georgetown. The technique is fairly simple. A reflectance confocal microscope reflects near-infrared light o...the technique for analyzing reading breast tissue. reflectance confocal microscopy also is currently being used o...biopsies taken from 16 patients to look at whether reflectance confocal microscopy can assess, in real time, the ...

Reflectance in Medical Technology

Large Blinded Clinical Study Achieves High Accuracy for the Diagnosis of Melanoma Using In Vivo Confocal Microscopy

...o site blinded clinical study. The paper is entitled "The Impact of In Vivo reflectance Confocal Microscopy for the Diagnostic Accuracy of Melanoma and Equivocal M...ogy (2007), 0, 000-000, doi: 10.1038/sj.jid.5700993, "The Impact of In Vivo reflectance Confocal Microscopy for the Diagnostic Accuracy of Melanoma and Equivocal M...

Hemoglobin Testing at the Point of Care

...hemoglobin test system designed for use in physician offices, public health clinics, blood centers and emergency rooms. The system consists of a reflectance meter and proprietary hemoglobin test cards that measures hemoglobin on a single drop of blood in seconds. Each package of reagent test cards includes...

Analyzers Offer Point-of-Care Lipid Panels

...ndheld device called the Professional CardioChek P.A. This device is one of several manufactured by the company that use proprietary test strips and a reflectance photometry processor to perform a wide range of in-office tests on a single fingerstick whole blood sample. As with the Cholestech analyzer, the Cardi...

Reflectance in Medical Products

PulseOx 7500 Pulse Oximeter

Description:... The PulseOx 7500 incorporates SPO Medical's unique reflectance technology in ambulatory and sleep-related applications, for maximum user comfort and ease-of-use. It uniquely uses very low power for extended usage,...
Company:SPO Medical, Inc.

PulseOx 5500 Pulse Oximeter

Description:... The PulseOx 5500TM is the worlds first spot check monitor for blood oxygen saturation and heart rate to use reflectance pulse oximetry (RPO). The PulseOx 5500TM uses SPO Medicals patented technology to provide a medical device which is more usable for many patients and ...
Company:SPO Medical, Inc.

Reflotron Plus Chemistry Analyzer

Description:...diagnostic device designed for the quantitative determination of clinical chemistry parameters using Reflotron Test Tabs. It works on the principle of reflectance photometry and ensures rapid and reliable results while being easy to use. The results are shown on a clear LC display and the profile can be printe...
Company:Roche Diagnostics

UrinQuick Urine Chemistry Analyzer

Description:... analyze and generate results for QuickVue UrinChek 10+ SG and QuickVue UrinChek 8+ urine test strips. The UrinQuick analyzes the urine test strips by reflectance spectrophotometry. Test results are available in conventional, S.I. or qualitative units via display or printed format. Urinalysis testing has ...
Company:Iris Diagnostics

Miditron Junior II

Description:... Miditron Junior II is a semi-automated, easy-to-use urinalysis analyser for standardised reflectance photometric test-strip-evaluation. Optimised hardware and software features allow user friendly operation, high performance and convenience to supply ...
Company:Roche Diagnostics

Heidelberg Retina Angiograph 2 (HRA 2)

Features:... Detail Lowest Light Exposure Fluorescein Angiography (FA) ICG Angiography (ICGA) Simultaneous FA and ICGA Infra-red and Blue reflectance Autofluorescence Stereo and Widefield Imaging 3D scanning Compact...
Company:Heidelberg Engineering, Inc.

AUTION JET AJ-4270 Urine Chemistry Analyzer

Features:... Dual wavelength reflectance measurement and color compensation pad correct for sample color interferences. Color measurement reported in 23 colors and intensities, eliminating op...
Company:Iris Diagnostics

Instant Plus

Features:... A single, economical monitor that tests both cholesterol and glucose saves you money. Reliable reflectance technology provides consistent results. The hand-held Accu-Chek InstantPlus Meter is lightweight, so it is easy to test anywhere. Choice of choleste...
Company:Roche Diagnostics

Stat-Site MHgb

Features:... The StatSite MHgb test system consists of the dedicated reflectance meter and a proprietary hemoglobin test card that accurately and precisely measure hemoglobin on a single drop of blood in seconds. A lot-specific cod...
Company:Stanbio Laboratory

Reflectance in Medical Definition

Photomedicine

... Optical Coherence Tomography using infrared light of coronary plaques Confocal microscopy and fluorescence microscopy of in vivo tissue Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy for in vivo quantification of pigments (normal and cancerous), and hemoglobin Perpendicular-polarized flash and fluorescence photogra...

Reflectance in Biological News

AGU journal highlights -- Aug. 6, 2009

... that is able to penetrate the atmospherein general, aerosol pollutants have been shown to scatter or absorb incoming solar radiation and increase the reflectance and lifetime of clouds, thereby reducing the amount of solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface. Dubbed "global dimming," this phenomenon has been...

August 2009 Geology and GSA Today media highlights

...ere mapped in the Sierra Nevada, California, using an airborne imaging spectrometer, to determine if these materials could be uniquely identified with reflectance spectroscopy. Such information can be used to prepare or refine maps of areas that may contain minerals that can be asbestiform, such as serpentine an...

Fire is important part of global climate change, report scientists

...ts. Other atmospheric changes caused by fires are increases in the greenhouse gas methane, increased aerosol particulates from smoke, and the changing reflectance of a charred landscape. Consequences of large fires also have huge economic, environmental, and health costs, report the authors. The authors stat...

New aerosol observing technique turns gray skies to blue

...an Han, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Alabama Huntsville who was not involved in the study, agreed. "The high sensitivity of polarized reflectance offers tremendous information that could not be obtained by other techniques," he said. For instance, Light Detection and Ranging, or lidar, bounce...

Plant soybean early to increase yield

...nd seed mass), nodes, and reproductive nodes were counted by hand just before harvest. Oil and protein concentrations were determined by near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy. A recent article in the January-February 2009 issue of Agronomy Journal gives detailed results from this study. This research was p...

American Chemical Society's weekly PressPac -- Jan. 14, 2009

...OR IMMEDIATE RELEASE "Innovative analytical methodology combining micro-X-ray Diffraction, Scanning Electron Microscopy-based mineral maps and Diffuse reflectance Infrared fourier Transform Spectroscopy to characterize archaeological artifacts" DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT ARTICLE http://pubs.acs.org/stoken/presspac/p...

Satellites search out South Pole snowfields

... spatial resolution from a metre to several hundred metres will measure the reflectance of the sun by the Antarctic snow. All of the data will be cross-compared to...unity. Future ones include measurements of the temperature of the ocean and reflectance of a salt lake in Turkey. Looking to the future, it is hoped that the U...

ESA tests laser to measure atmospheric carbon dioxide

...oach implies that the return signal depends on the reflectance properties of the area of ground illuminated by th.... However, current knowledge about how much ground reflectance varies is insufficient to accurately assess margin...n successfully demonstrated that changes in ground reflectance would not significantly perturb the signal receive...

Ecologists use oceanographic data to predict future climate change

...on and contraction of sea ice in the Arctic. "When the Arctic cools and ice sheets and sea ice expand, the increased ice cover increases albedo, or reflectance of the sun's rays by the ice," says Greene, the lead author on the paper. "When more of the sun is reflected rather than absorbed, this leads to globa...

Scientists map soils on an extinct American volcano

...r is focusing on the validation of soils data and the use of new field portable technologies such as x-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometry and diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) in soil survey. Accurate soils information is vital not only to agriculture, but also civil engineering, environmental science, and...

Reflectance in Biological Technology

SPO Medical Expands Professional Product Offering

... markets: medical care; home and remote-care; sports and wellness; and safety and security. Its patented technology uses information gathered from the reflectance of light on the human blood stream, in a non-invasive manner, to monitor key vital signs. The Company distributes its products through a network of di...

SPO Medical Files Annual Report for Fiscal 2008

... markets: medical care; home and remote-care; sports and wellness; and safety and security. Its patented technology uses information gathered from the reflectance of light on the human blood stream, in a non-invasive manner, to monitor key vital signs. The Company distributes its products through a network of di...

SPO Medical Appoints New US Sales Rep Groups

... markets: medical care; home and remote-care; sports and wellness; and safety and security. Its patented technology uses information gathered from the reflectance of light on the human blood stream, in a non-invasive manner, to monitor key vital signs. The Company distributes its products through a network of di...

SPO Medical Reports Nine Month Period Ending September 2008

... markets: medical care; home and remote-care; sports and wellness; and safety and security. Its patented technology uses information gathered from the reflectance of light on the human blood stream, in a non-invasive manner, to monitor key vital signs. The Company distributes its products through a network of di...

Monitor Granule Growth in Process with the FBRM C35

... designed to target granule size in real time. Columbia, MD (PRWEB) October 1, 2008 -- Using probe-based FBRM (Focused Beam reflectance Measurement) technology the http://www.mt.com/mt/products/products/FBRM-C35-in-process-particle-characterization_Product-Product_1219948248324.jsp?cre...

SPO Medical Reports Second Quarter 2008 Results

... markets: medical care; home and remote-care; sports and wellness; and safety and security. Its patented technology uses information gathered from the reflectance of light on the human blood stream, in a non-invasive manner, to monitor key vital signs. The Company distributes its products through a network of di...

SPO Medical Reports First Quarter 2008 Results

... markets: medical care; home and remote-care; sports and wellness; and safety and security. Its patented technology uses information gathered from the reflectance of light on the human blood stream, in a non-invasive manner, to monitor key vital signs. The Company distributes its products through a network of di...

SPO Medical to Conduct Live Investor Meeting on April 29, 2008

... markets: medical care; home and remote-care; sports and wellness; and safety and security. Its patented technology uses information gathered from the reflectance of light on the human blood stream, in a non-invasive manner, to monitor key vital signs. The Company distributes its products through a network of di...

SPO Medical Begins Shipping PulseOx 6000(TM) and PulseOx 6100(TM)

... markets: medical care; home and remote-care; sports and wellness; and safety and security. Its patented technology uses information gathered from the reflectance of light on the human blood stream, in a non-invasive manner, to monitor key vital signs. The Company distributes its products through a network of di...

Researchers develop darkest manmade material

...nsuccessful in engineering a material with a total reflectance of zero. The total reflectance of conventional black paint, for example, is betwe...or to the discovery by Lins group, boasted a total reflectance of 0.16 percent to 0.18 percent. Lins team c...

Reflectance in Biological Products

1/4" to 1/8" Adapter for Reflectance Probe Holder from Ocean Optics

Description: 1/4" to 1/8" Adapter for Reflectance Probe Holder...
Company:Ocean Optics