Instrumentation is described that is suitable for acquiring multisource, multidetector, time-series optical data at high sampling rates (up to 150 Hz) from tissues having arbitrary geometries. The design rationale, calibration protocol, and measured performance features are given for both a currently used, CCD-camera-based instrument and a new silicon-photodiode-based system under construction....

The Soft X-ray Telescope (SXT) aboard the AstroSat satellite is first Indian telescope in space. It a modest size with charge coupled device (CCD) camera focal plane, which provides images $$\sim $$ 0.3–8.0 keV band. A forte of SXT providing undistorted spectra relatively bright sources, it excels over some current large CCD-based telescopes. Here, we highlight published spectral and timing res...

VideoCom is the new, multi-purpose single-line CCD camera (charge-coupled device) from LD Didactic, which images one or more bodies on a CCD line with 2048 pixels to register their position (see Fig. 1). The registered positions are transferred to a computer via a serial interface at a rate of up to 80 times per second. This process is repeated continually, enabling the computer to graphically ...

this paper presents a new methodology for the automated inspection of pipes. standard inspection systems are based on closed-circuit television cameras which are mounted on remotely controlled robots and connected to remote video recording devices. the main problems of such camera-based inspection systems are: 1) the lack of visibility in the interior of the pipes and 2) the poor quality of the...

This paper discusses the design, development, testing, and demonstration of a highly miniaturized, battery operated, digital wireless camera. The miniature wireless camera receives commands transmittedfrom a remote base station requesting it to take one or more frames of data, and broadcasts the digital image data to the base station receiver for display. The camera uses a complementary metal-o...

In this paper; we propose a novel and practical stereo camera system that uses only one camera and a biprism placed in front of the camera. The equivalent of a stereo pair of images is formed as the left and right halves of a single CCD image using a biprism. The system is therefore cheap and extremely easy to calibrate since it requires only one CCD camera. An additional advantage of the geome...

MAXI, Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image, is the X-ray observatory on the Japanese experimental module (JEM) Exposed Facility (EF) on the International Space Station (ISS). MAXI is a slit scanning camera which consists of two kinds of X-ray detectors: one is a one-dimensional position-sensitive proportional counter with a total area of ∼ 5000 cm, the Gas Slit Camera (GSC), and the other is an X-ray...

A high level of fluorescence background signal rejection was achieved for solid and powder samples by using a combination of simple low-resolution spectrograph and ultrafast intensified/gated CCD camera. The unique timing characteristics of CCD camera match exceptionally well characteristics of Ti:sapphire oscillator allowing fast gated light detection at a repetition rate of up to 110 MHz, mak...

Results from our fast and high accuracy 3-D laser radar are given at distances up to 500 m. The system is based on gated viewing with range accuracy below 1 mm under optimal circumstances. It consists of a high sensitivity, fast, intensified CCD camera, and an Nd:YAG passively Q-switched 32.4 kHz pulsed green laser at 532 nm. The CCD has 752×582 pixels. Camera shutter and delay steps are contro...