2023-10-31

Life Science

Every day, new interactions between light and living organisms are discovered.

Pioneering the exploration of uncharted areas of Life Sciences, our innovative cameras are the solution to the most complex detection challenges of the scientific community involved in ultra-low light imaging.

Life Science
Credit: University of New South Wales

Applications in Life Science

PHOTON COUNTING FOR LIFE SCIENCES

Multiple biomedical research fields can now benefit from the most sensitive camera on the market. Observing individual photons at high frame rates with an astoundingly high S⁣N⁣R⁣ is now possible with Nüvü™ E⁣M⁣C⁣C⁣D⁣ cameras. With a background noise below 0.001 ē/pix/frame as well as an EM peaking at 5000, these cameras can be applied to several biomedical research fields to study phenomena that have never been examined with such precision, sensitivity and reliability.

Photon Counting image

An E⁣M⁣C⁣C⁣D⁣ background noise results from the combination of d⁣a⁣r⁣k⁣ ⁣c⁣u⁣r⁣r⁣e⁣n⁣t⁣ and clock-induced charges. The readout noise, the excess noise factor, and improper charge transfer also influence the background noise. Nüvü Camēras state-of-the-art and patented technology elegantly overcomes these obstacles. Its lower noise allows signal amplification up to 5000 times via electron multiplication before digitization, while typical E⁣M⁣C⁣C⁣D⁣s⁣ are limited to an E⁣M⁣ ⁣g⁣a⁣i⁣n⁣ of 1000 due to lack of efficiency. Combine with the multitude of other noise-countering methods made available with C⁣C⁣C⁣P⁣ technology. Additionally, Nüvü Camēras advance technology sets new standards using creative and innovative engineering to physically reduce the system’s noise without a single computer-based filtering algorithm.

When every photon counts

What you see is the exact same galaxie imaged with and without Nüvü Camēras’s imaging technology. Now imagine that each star is a cancer cell, which technology would you prefer?

Spatial innovations have always been at the forefront of new technologies. This is the reason why Nüvü’s technology, although initially designed for Astronomy, is now pushing boundaries of the observable in life science.

Without Nüvü's technology
With Nüvü's technology
NGC7331 radial velocity field extracted from Fabry-Pérot spectroscopy data. The data, gathered at the 1.6-m Mont Mégantic telescope at a spectral resolution of 15000, are among the very first demonstration of the potential of photon-counting imaging.