FEATURE MEMS
Microscopy in miniature
Jessica Rowbury looks at how MEMS technology is being integrated into devices that could transform traditional methods of cancer diagnosis
20 ELECTRO OPTICS l MARCH 2014
M
iniature microscopes that can be housed in the tip of an endoscope are now being designed to improve cancer
diagnosis. Two research groups, from the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS), in Germany and from Stony Brook University in the USA, are taking advantage of micro- electro- and micro-opto-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS/MOEMS) technology to build tiny microscopes for in vivo diagnosis of suspected cancerous lesions.
The devices, which make use of MEMS
mirrors less than a millimetre in size, are designed to bring the microscope to the tissue,
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