Microscopy

Chemical color representation in microscopy

Today complicated and expensive methods are used to visualize the chemical properties of objects in the microscopic images.

Here a simple and cost-effective way is presented.

The chemical camera (hyperspectral camera) is simply connected to the color camera port of a microscope. With the hyperspectral data combined with the Chemical Color Imaging Technology, immediately after recording images could be produced, that already shows the spectral characteristics of the measurement objects. Since these images are made on a complete high-resolution data cube, these images can also be used for further chemometric analysis.

This chemical images can be recorded in the VIS, VIS/NIR or NIR spectral range, depending on the system design. For use in the NIR range it must be ensured that the optics of the microscope are designed for the selected spectral range.