Photothermal Spectroscopy Corp. announces a major new addition to the mIRage-LS, Widefield OPTIR, a new widefield Fluorescence-Infrared multimodal microscope uniquely combining sub-micron optical photothermal infrared and fluorescence enhanced technique. This combination dramatically improves chemical imaging measurement speed and sensitivity with sub-500nm IR resolution for life science related applications.
Widefield OPTIR leverages a novel widefield imaging technique, Fluorescence-IR (FL-OPTIR) that detects and measures the biomolecular area of interest using a widefield based, fluorescence-enhanced approach combined with optical photothermal infrared microscopy.
Fluorescence-IR provides high imaging speeds with upto 4 frames per second and increases chemical measurement sensitivity, all while retaining the sub-500nm spatial resolution. Hyperspectral images can be created in minutes and resulting spectra of key features can be automatically extracted.
“The new Widefield OPTIR mode uniquely leverages the benefits of fluorescence-enhanced microscopy to support high speed, automated targeting and measurement of molecular features of interest with sub-micron IR spatial resolution”, stated Dr Mustafa Kansiz, Director of Product Management, Photothermal Spectroscopy Corp. “This new capability broadens the range of applications that can be addressed by multimodal O-PTIR technology, including unlabeled, labelled, auto fluorescent and IR or Raman tagged samples, there are no limitations”.
“We have already shipped multiple systems to customers, completed scientific publications and look forward to upcoming publications from our early adopters”.
Further information on Widefield OPTIR is available on the website
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Dean Dawson
Email: Info@photothermal.com
About Photothermal Spectroscopy Corp.
Photothermal Spectroscopy Corp (PSC), the sub-micron spectroscopy company, has pioneered the breakthrough technique of Optical Photothermal Infrared (O-PTIR) technology that eliminates key limitations of traditional IR Spectroscopy providing submicron spatial resolution for IR and transmission-like FTIR quality spectra in non-contact reflection mode. PSC developed the world’s first simultaneous Infrared and Raman microscope and imaging system, providing IR and Raman data from the exact same spot, at the same time, with the same submicron spatial resolution. PSC’s vision is to enable the power of IR spectroscopy to be applied to high value problems in industry and academia via the adoption of O-PTIR.
