publication date: Jun 14, 2012
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author/source: Cooper Repco Ltd
UK company receives recognition for making confocal
microscopy "personal"
Aurox Limited, a leader in the design and manufacture of
innovative optical imaging equipment, has won a 2012 Queen's Award for
Enterprise in Innovation.
The award comes in recognition of the development and
successful market introduction of the SD62 microscope, one of an ever
increasing portfolio of Aurox products.
Dr Rimas Juskaitis, Aurox Managing Director, said "The
Queen's Award, coming soon after winning an R&D100 award, is a welcome
endorsement. These awards provide much-deserved recognition of the efforts of
the team that developed the SD62 and who successfully took it to market."
The revolutionary design brought affordable confocal
microscopy to a wider user community. The unit - barely the size of a data
projector - attaches to any conventional microscope and enables high quality 3D
images to be acquired in real time. This makes it possible to capture the
response of living cells to stimuli which is a cornerstone of biomedical
research and drug development. The SD62 does this by using a completely new and
patented technical approach based on structured illumination and aperture
correlation. It encodes the excitation light in two complementary ways and then
extracts, by post processing the acquired images in a straightforward manner,
both an optically sectioned image and an image equivalent to that obtained by a
conventional wide-field fluorescence microscope.
Professor Tony Wilson, a Director of Aurox said, "The
technological and commercial significance of the design, and the quality of
manufacturing is underlined by the SD62 being distributed as an Aurox product
by Carl Zeiss, one of the world's leading microscope companies, and Andor
Technology plc, a world leader in scientific optical imaging."
Aurox is building on its success and has developed a core
imaging technology that lies at the heart of a new range of products that
address market needs in applications ranging from materials inspection to high
throughput screening.
The Queen's Awards are the UK's highest accolade for
business success. They are made each year by The Queen, on the advice of the
Prime Minister, who is assisted by an Advisory Committee that includes
representatives of Government, industry and commerce, and the trade unions.
For more information visit
www.aurox.co.uk
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