The US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has awarded its 510(k) clearance for Michelson Diagnostics’ (London, UK) VivoSight OCT scanning product. For clinical use, FDA 510(k) applies: “VivoSight is a Multi-Beam Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) system indicated for use in the two-dimensional, cross-sectional, real-time imaging of external tissues to the human body.”

A super resolution microscope system from Nikon Instruments incorporates Structured Illumination Microscopy (SIM) technology licensed from the University of California, San Francisco (USCF) Office of Technology Management. With the N-SIM microscopy system biologists and neuroscience researchers will be able to view microstructures and nanostructures of fixed and living cells (time resolution of 0.6 s/frame) with molecular-scale resolution.

In vivo optical molecular imaging (OMI) is poised to move into clinical use as one of the key tools in personalized medicine, complementing more established imaging tools such as CT and MRI.

Using nanomaterials researchers from Northeastern University’s Electronic Materials Research Institute have manufactured a superlens that enables objects as small as a few nanometers in size to be seen clearly through the lens.

Designed to replace the use of scalpels and electro-surge in the treatment of soft tissue, the Picasso Lite soft tissue dental laser from AMD Lasers  is priced at $2495 and offers 2.5 watts of power and three customizable presets.