Hyper Spectral imaging for Pharmaceutical, Metal industries

SPECTRALINE Inc. announces the release of the ES100 Spectrometer with a continuous full spectra acquisition rate of 1320 Hz, and a single shot rate of 7 KHz. With this latest addition, full hyper spectral imaging of a 120 x 120 image can be obtained in as little as 11 seconds.

The primary advantage of the ES100 Hyper Spectral Imager over conventional hyper spectral imagers is that

• full spectrum is obtained from each pixel of the image in
  0.7 ms, leading to very low smear in the spectral data.
  
• In addition, the very fast acquisition (11 seconds) of the hyper spectral images allows for much shorter duration chemical reactions to be studied effectively.

Hyper spectral imagers are most frequently used for

• combinatorial chemistry applications where the spectra from a large number of samples have to be obtained in an efficient manner.
  
• to obtain the variation in surface properties (temperature, emissivity, composition, etc.) of objects such as hot metals, oil paintings, coatings, molten glass, etc.

The ES100 Spectrometer is converted to a hyper spectral imager with a 2D scanner mounter in front of it. The hyper spectral imager obtains spectral data at 160 wavelengths (between 1.2 and 4.8 microns) with an image resolution of 120 x 120 pixels.

The technical specifications of the ES100 and the 2-D scanner are given below.

ES 100 SPECIFICATIONS:

Array: 160 element bilinear PbSe
Spectra acquisition rate: 1320 Hz
Wavelength: 1200 nm to 4800 nm
Data Acquisition: Desktop computer with NI 10 MHz PCI board
User Interface: Infraspec GUI with scanner module

2-D SCANNER SPECIFICATIONS:

Resolution: 120 x 120 points
Horizontal line rate: 11 Hz
Hyper spectral frame rate: 0.091 Hz
Scanner type: Galvo type
Imaging lens: FOV Variable

Spectraline, Inc., 1291 A, Cumberland Avenue, West Lafayette, IN 47906. Tel: 765-497-2993 ; Fax: 765-463-7004.