New feature will speed EMCCD acquisition in low-light imaging applications

Canadian EMCCD camera manufacturer Nüvü Camēras has introduced a new multiple regions of interest (mROI) feature to boost acquisition speeds in low-light applications.

The mROI feature is designed for applications requiring both high-speed and low-light sensitivity, and will offer adaptiveness of the sensor’s imaging area to better capture scattered dynamic events. The feature, which is integrated into the latest NüPixel software, offers a drag-and-drop user environment to set regions of interest. For users working with their own software, Nüvü also supports the mROI in its software development kit with all products.

The biomedical imaging community, in particular, may benefit from the new feature, suggests Nüvü Camēras.

"The mROI (feature) will be a promising feature for bioluminescence resonance energy transfer [BRET] imaging," said Professor Michel Bouvier of the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer.

Available with all of Nüvü’s products, the mROI feature allows the selection of specific areas of the detector performing acquisitions according to the activity across the field of view. The result, according to a press release, is faster acquisitions as only the pixels of interest are read. Users can position up to 9 customizable ROIs on the detector at once.

Dr. François Rigaut and his team at the Australian National University have tested the new feature in the field in a next generation multi-star adaptive optics system for the Gemini-South telescope in Chile. This instrument will acquire several hundred frames per second on regions of the detector to counter in real-time the deformations created by atmospheric turbulences, which hinder astronomical imaging from Earth.

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