Press Releases & News
 July 2010 Fluorescence Imaging of Cranial Vasculature in Live Animals M. Waleed Gaber, an associate professor at Baylor's College of Medicine and co-director of the small animal imaging facility at Texas Children's Hospital, is investigating factors that influence the health of vasculature surrounding CNS tumors to optimize efficacy and safety of anti-cancer therapies. |
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 June 2010 Cover Story: Photometrics Evolve EMCCD Camera Makes 2010 Top Trends for Life Science Research Evolve standardizes the unit of measurement for imaging data, allowing researchers to report live data in photoelectrons. This revolution is supporting scientists by making their research quantifiable and reproducible. |
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 SPRING 2010 Imaging for Cancer Research: Fluorescence Imaging of Cranial Vasculature in Live Animals (page 19) Radiation therapy is one of the most successful treatments for malignant tumors yet there is still work to be done. Dr. Waleed Gaber, associate professor at Baylor's College of Medicine and his team have made a significant discovery and are progressing this area of research using Photometrics imaging solutions. |
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 APRIL 2010 LOW-LIGHT IMAGING: Novel back-illuminated CCD enhances low-light-level detection Conventional CCDs come in several forms, each with certain disadvantages for low-light imaging; a new take on back-illuminated technology resolves these issues while maintaining the benefits. |
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 MARCH 2010 Integrating Cellular Imaging Data Effectively Advances Allow Researchers to Compare Images Taken at Different Times and Settings |
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 MARCH 2010 Think Big, Work Small: Newest Microscopy Technologies Evolve Camera makes the top of the list with its Photometrics-exclusive technology that measures imaging data in photoelectrons, an absolute and reproducible unit that makes experimental data quantitative and reproducible. |
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MARCH 2010 Measurement Standards/Super-Resolution Microscopy: Quantifying fluorescence EMCCD technology, which revolutionized the life sciences by enabling visualization of low-light events, is quantitative. But EMCCD's standard unit of measure is variable. A non-arbitrary alternative promises better fluorescence microscopy - and better science. |
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 JANUARY 2010 Photonics Media Names Photometrics a Prism Award Finalist for Photonics Innovation for its Evolve Camera View the interview with Rachit Mohindra, Photometrics’ Associate product Manager for the Evolve camera. |
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 JANUARY 2010 Photometrics named top finalist in 2009 Prism Awards for Innovation sponsored by Photonics Media and SPIE |
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 JANUARY 2010 Select Science Reports at ASCB: Novel Method for Quantifying Life Science Imaging |
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 OCTOBER 2009 Advances in EMCCD Technology: Making Imaging Less Arbitrary |
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OCTOBER 2009 A Brave New Image Advancing Fluorescence Imaging |
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 DECEMBER 2009 "Top 10 Innovations" of 2009 Photometrics' Evolve™ EMCCD Camera named one of "The 10 most exciting tools to hit life sciences this year." Guiding Light How to manipulate cellular events with the right light sensing molecule and a flash of light. |
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 OCTOBER 2009 Featured Product |
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 SEPTEMBER 2009 Industry News (.pdf) Industry News (Online version, Page 58) |
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 SEPTEMBER 2009 Photometrics presents Evolve cameras at Neuroscience Product News Accessories Guide (Page 12) |
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 SEPTEMBER 2009 The Future of Life Science |
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 SEPTEMBER 2009 Watching the Molecules - EMCCD camera lets researchers detect and see things that previously were hard to see. Dr. Deepak Sharma, Sr. Product Manager, Photometrics, discusses issues surrounding current imaging technologies and how the Evolve EMCCD camera helps make bio-imaging less arbitrary, more reproducible. Excerpt from interview with Barry Hochfelder, Editor of Advanced Imaging Magazine and AdvancedImagingPro.com. |
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 AUGUST 2008 Get the Most from Förster Resonance Energy Transfer |
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 APRIL 2006 EMCCD Camera Technology Advances |
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JANUARY 2003 Laurin Publishing awards 2003 Photonics Spectra Circle of Excellence Award to Photometrics for Cascade Camera, first commercially available EMCCD camera for microscopy |
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Photometrics has a rich history of creating new paradigm shifts in the way scientists conduct their research. Clearly the established leader of high-performance cameras, Photometrics consistently develops reliable products that are sought by researchers around the globe.
Photometrics has earned its leadership role with over three decades of strong product design and delivery. The company and its products have achieved multiple awards and continuously set the precedent for how cameras are designed to support and advance life science research.
Photometrics Company Achievements Timeline
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Photometrics releases Evolve™, creating a paradigm shift in life science research. Researchers gain ability to measure and quantify data in electrons, and create reproducible data in multiple scenarios. |
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Photometrics ships QuantEM, only 16-bit EMCCD scientific camera with bias stability & linearized gain. |
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Photometrics acquires Optical Insights, LLC & integrates multispectral imaging devices (Dual-View, Dual-Cam & Quad-View) into product line. |
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Photometrics develops special camera used by NASA for thermal imaging of space shuttle. |
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Photometrics receives Circle of Excellence Award for Cascade, the world's first EMCCD camera. |
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Photometrics introduces Cascade, the world's first scientific-grade microscopy EMCCD camera. |
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Photometrics introduces its first CoolSNAP camera. |
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Photometrics attains ISO 9001 certification, folding the engineering design process into the quality system. |
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Photometrics ships first Quantix camera. It borrows camera head technology from Series 200, but adds 12-bit digitization up to 5 MHz. |
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Photometrics ships 1st SenSys camera, an inexpensive, self-contained CCD camera utilizing PPD. |
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Photometrics ships 1st “zero footprint” CCD camera with Primary Point Digitization (PPD). |
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Photometrics ships the Star 1 camera system targeted to the astronomy market. Star 1 borrows technology from Series 200, but is simplified to support a single CCD type. |
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Photometrics develops CCD to fiberoptic bonding process; ships 1st fiber-bonded CCD camera. |
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Photometrics develops CCD backthinning process with CCD manufacturers. |
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Dr. Robert Ballard uses Photometrics camera to discover RMS Titanic. |
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Photometrics ships commercially-available, scientific CCD camera, the Model 80A TEC-cooled camera. |
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Photometrics ships first “special” cameras: one-offs typical of high-tech start-ups. Cameras were targeted to the astronomy community. |
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The dawn of high-performance CCD imaging occurs with the establishment of Photometrics in Tucson, Arizona, by Dr. Richard Aikens. |
