New Blood Flow Imaging Products For 2007

Moor Instruments have released two new blood flow imaging products for 2007, the moorLDLS and moorFLPI.

moorLDLS - Rapid laser Doppler imager. It uses a line of laser light to illuminate the tissue instead of a single laser spot. As the line is swept across the tissue, the moorLDLS builds up an image faster than conventional collimated single beam imagers, which makes it ideal for looking at dynamic changes. It is best suited for scanning medium sized areas - 20 x 15 cm being the maximum. The moorLDLS has a resolution of up to 256 x 64 pixels and colour CCD camera is included. Click here for more info.

moorFLPI - This is a full-field blood flow imaging system. It uses the speckle contrast technique that is related to (but is not!) laser Doppler. It is ideal for imaging small areas and provides imaging rates of up to 25 images per second. It is possible to capture live blood flow images, separate repeat images and single point (i.e. average of an ROI on the live image) - all simultaneously. There is a manual zoom, enabling you to focus on to areas as small as 5mm x 7mm with our standard system - e.g. a fingernail. The effective penetration depth is less than conventional laser Doppler so it is best suited for investigations of nutritional blood flow and imaging in open surgery. Click here for more info.

Please click here for an informative article in the Institute of Physics publication, OLE (Optics and Lasers Europe). The article gives some background to the Full Field technique and offers a comprehensive history, from early beginnings to the current developments at Moor Instruments. Comments are featured from the originator of the technique, Dr David Briers