Snap Judgment: Ultrafast Camera Renews Promise of Blood Test for Early Cancer Detection

“The heart of the U.C.L.A. system is an ultrafast microscopic camera the researchers introduced in 2009 that captures images at about six million frames per second. This “serial time-encoded amplified microscopy” (STEAM) camera creates each image using a very short laser pulse—a flash of light only a billionth of a second long. The STEAM camera’s shutter speed is 27 picoseconds, about a million times faster than a current digital camera. (A picosecond it one trillionth of a second.)” - Larry Greenemeier, Scientific American

08/15/12