Miniature Uncooled Infrared Sensitive Detectors for in Vivo Biomedical Imaging Applications

Conference · Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1998

OSTI ID:629973

Datskos, P G; Demos, S G; Rajic, S

Broadband infrared (OR) radiation detectors have been developed using miniature, inexpensive, mass produced microcantilevers capable of detecting temperature differences as small as lea(-6) K. Microcantilevers made out of semiconductor materials can be used either as uncurled photon or thermal detectors. Mounted on a probe mm in diameter a number of microcantilevers can be accommodated in the working channel of existing endoscopes for in vivo proximity focus measurements inside the human body.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-96OR22464
• OSTI ID: 629973
• Report Number(s): ORNL/CP-96386; CONF-980117-; ON: DE98004123; TRN: AD-a340 428
• Resource Relation: Conference: BIOS `98: an international symposium on biomedical optics, San Jose, CA (United States), 24-30 Jan 1998; Other Information: DN: Prepared in cooperation with the University of Tennessee and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.; PBD: 1998
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

56 BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
APPLIED STUDIES
PROBES
PHOTONS
INFRARED RADIATION
BOLOMETERS
RADIATION DETECTORS
TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE
IN VIVO
TEMPERATURE CONTROL