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Barbara Goode
by Barbara Goode

Barbara G. Goode, Editor in Chief of BioOptics World, has spent more than 20 years writing about technology. She also writes and edits for Laser Focus World; and previously served as chief editor for Small Times and Sensors, where she covered various technologies for medical and other uses. The BioOptics Worldview blog aims to provide useful analysis of technical and market advances in lasers, optics, and imaging for the life sciences.

Researchers' holographic video technique has commercial competition

I was intrigued to learn about the technique developed by scientists at New York University to record 3D movies of microscopic systems, such as biological molecules, using holographic video. They describe the method, detailed in a recent Optics Express...

OCT for cancer detection/diagnosis

During his appearance last month as the fifth annual Hounsfield memorial lecturer at the Imperial College London (England) Imaging Sciences Centre, MIT professor James Fujimoto said that screening and early stage diagnosis of cancers is a growth area for...

Urodynamix's financial report indicates demand for NIRS technology

This week, Urodynamix Technologies Ltd. reported exciting news: Financial results for its fiscal first quarter (ended March 31) showed a 1,269%increase from revenues in Q1 2008. The spike resulted from the first commercial sales of the company's URO NIRS...