Imaging

This lidar image shows how lake water has spilled over and washed out several large sections of roadway and train tracks in Boiling Spring Lakes, North Carolina.

Lidar accelerates hurricane recovery in the Carolinas

Lincoln Laboratory's lidar data, processed quickly with support from the organization MCNC, helped FEMA assess flooding and damages caused by Hurricane Florence.

December 21, 2018

Riccardo Comin (left), an assistant professor of physics, and physics graduate student Abraham Levitan assemble the contacts on a sample holder that they’ll use to study the effects of high current on the superconducting material yttrium barium copper oxide, in the cryogenic optical spectrometer seen in the foreground. The setup enables the researchers to perform Raman spectroscopy down to 4 kel...

Better superconductors from ceramic copper oxides

Riccardo Comin seeks to elucidate the microscopic physics of high-temperature superconducting devices to advance their technological applications.

December 13, 2018

BP Amoco Chemical Company Senior Research Chemist Matthew Kulzick outlines advances in imaging technology during the MIT MRL Materials Day Symposium on Oct. 10.

Solving a multi-million dollar problem

In MIT visit, BP chemist details new X-ray and sample chamber technologies, yielding insights into fighting metal corrosion, improving catalytic reactions, and more.

November 13, 2018

Dozens of Lincoln Laboratory staff members spanning five of the laboratory's technical divisions worked on the lidar mapping effort in Puerto Rico.

Using lidar to assess destruction in Puerto Rico

Lincoln Laboratory team's lidar data will allow FEMA to track further damage if another hurricane strikes the island.

August 30, 2018

MIT researchers have developed novel photography optics, dubbed “time-folded optics,” that captures images based on the timing of reflecting light inside the lens, instead of the traditional approach that relies on the arrangement of optical components. The invention opens doors for new capabilities for ultrafast time- or depth-sensitive cameras.

Novel optics for ultrafast cameras create new possibilities for imaging

Technique can capture a scene at multiple depths with one shutter click — no zoom lens needed.

August 13, 2018

MIT researchers describe a machine-learning algorithm that can register brain scans and other 3-D images more than 1,000 times more quickly using novel learning techniques.

Faster analysis of medical images

Algorithm makes the process of comparing 3-D scans up to 1,000 times faster.

June 18, 2018

Ashok Ajoy PhD ’16, poses with a prototype hyperpolarizer device.

The quantum choreographer

Using diamond dust and laser light to control atomic spin, Ashok Ajoy PhD ’16 pursues alternatives to costly conventional imaging technologies.

June 11, 2018

A comparison of blood vessels imaged with short-wave fluorescence imaging (right) and near-infrared fluorescence imaging (left). Both images rely on a fluorescent dye called ICG, but the vessels can be seen more clearly with short-wave fluorescence imaging.

Fluorescent dye could enable sharper biological imaging

Technique could allow doctors and researchers to generate clearer images of blood vessels and other tissues.

April 6, 2018

Guy Satat, a graduate student in the MIT Media Lab, who led the new study.

Depth-sensing imaging system can peer through fog

Computational photography could solve a problem that bedevils self-driving cars.

March 20, 2018

The NMR spectrometer in the Quantum Engineering Group (QEG) lab

Scientists gain new visibility into quantum information transfer

Advance holds promise for “wiring” of quantum computers and other systems, and opens new avenues for understanding basic workings of the quantum realm.

March 8, 2018