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In this lidar map, AI algorithms have identified roads (red). By pairing this map with OpenStreetMaps, users can plan routes around roads that are deemed impassable and can do so at the scale of an entire sortie, which here covers about 400 square miles.

With lidar and artificial intelligence, road status clears up after a disaster

Automated tools can help emergency managers make decisions, plan routes, and quantify road damage at city scales.

April 21, 2020

Mirrored chip could enable handheld dark-field microscopes

Simple chip powered by quantum dots allows standard microscopes to visualize difficult-to-image biological organisms.

February 24, 2020

This 8-inch wafer contains phase-change pixels that can be controlled to modulate light. Researchers are studying the properties and behaviors of the pixels to inform the creation of future devices that use phase-change materials.

Researchers discover a new way to control infrared light

The new method could impact devices used in imaging, machine learning, and more.

January 30, 2020

Robert Hallowell (left) and Michael Matthews developed the Visibility Estimation through Image Analytics algorithm.

An algorithm with an eye for visibility helps pilots in Alaska

Real-time visibility estimates are a critical need in remote areas where visual flight is common and automated weather stations are scarce.

January 6, 2020

A new ultrasound technique uses lasers to produce images beneath the skin, without making contact with the skin as conventional ultrasound probes do. The new laser ultrasound technique was used to produce an image (left) of a human forearm (above), which was also imaged using conventional ultrasound (right).

Researchers produce first laser ultrasound images of humans

Technique may help remotely image and assess health of infants, burn victims, and accident survivors in hard-to-reach places.

December 19, 2019

With their model, researchers were able to generate on-demand brain scan templates of various ages (pictured) that can be used in medical-image analysis to guide disease diagnosis.

Producing better guides for medical-image analysis

Model quickly generates brain scan templates that represent a given patient population.

November 26, 2019

Schematic illustration of probe adsorption influenced by an attractive interaction within the corona

SMART discovers nondisruptive way to characterize the surface of nanoparticles

New method overcomes limitations of existing chemical procedures and may accelerate nanoengineering of materials.

November 12, 2019

ArtGut has three chambers: At the top is a gas cap through which nitrogen diffuses via a rubber membrane to the sample chamber below, generating a steep oxygen gradient that mimics conditions in the human gut, and the chamber at bottom emulates the gut's mucus lining.

Ten Lincoln Laboratory technologies earn 2019 R&D 100 Awards

International awards recognize innovations that can have significant impacts on society.

November 4, 2019

A new type of polymer designed by MIT chemists incorporates a special monomer (yellow) that helps the polymers to break down more easily under certain conditions.

New synthesis method yields degradable polymers

Materials could be useful for delivering drugs or imaging agents in the body; may offer alternative to some industrial plastics.

October 28, 2019

“The major research directions and technology platforms that [my] lab is known for today came out of this process where the students or I had a crazy idea, and then the lab executed on it, with all the twists and turns along the way,” says Paul Blainey, associate professor of biological engineering.

Biological engineer Paul Blainey creates new tools to advance biomedical research

His technology platforms have benefited genomics, diagnostics, and drug screening.

October 19, 2019

In situ sequencing identifies the gene knockout in each cell of a pooled CRISPR library. Fluorescence microscopy records both cellular phenotypes and sequencing data (cell nuclei are depicted in gray and the nucleotide bases are green = guanine, red = thymine, magenta = adenine and cyan = cytosine).

Imaging combined with genetic screening of cells enhances genomic discoveries

New image-based genetic screening method helps researchers identify key regulators of inflammation.

October 17, 2019

A novel model developed at MIT recovers valuable data lost from images and video that have been “collapsed” into lower dimensions. It can, for instance, recreate video from motion-blurred images or from cameras that capture people’s movement around corners as vague one-dimensional lines.

Recovering “lost dimensions” of images and video

Model could recreate video from motion-blurred images and “corner cameras,” may someday retrieve 3D data from 2D medical images.

October 16, 2019

Lincoln Laboratory employees (left to right) William Moulder, Jayme Selinger, David Pronchick, and Jeffrey Herd accept the FLC Excellence in Technology Transfer Award.

Technology transfer award recognizes system that detects concealed objects on people

The technology, first developed at Lincoln Laboratory, is now licensed and will soon be tested to screen passersby in sports stadiums.

October 4, 2019

An algorithm developed at MIT takes MRI images of placentas (top) and flattens them to be more easily analyzed (middle and bottom).

Using algorithms to build a map of the placenta

New technique stretches out MRI scans of placentas so they can be more accurately analyzed, and shows the potential of MRI for pregnancy monitoring.

October 2, 2019

Researchers at MIT and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have devised a new way to rapidly image synaptic proteins at high resolution. Using fluorescent nucleic acid probes, they can label and image as many as 12 different proteins in neuronal samples containing thousands of synapses.

Technique can image individual proteins within synapses

Rapid imaging method could help reveal how conditions such as autism affect brain cells.

September 26, 2019

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