PHOTOTHERMAL SPECTROSCOPY CORP.

Video Rate Photothermal Infrared Spectroscopy (VR-PTIR)

Based based in SANTA BARBARA, CA, PHOTOTHERMAL SPECTROSCOPY CORP. works in national institute of general medical sciences, founded in 2018.

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Project Summary Abstract
This Phase II project aims to develop and commercialize Video Rater Photothermal Infrared (VR-PTIR)
imaging and spectroscopy. The proposed VR-PTIR will provide 10-30X better spatial resolution than
conventional IR spectroscopy and will operate up to 1000X faster than previous photothermal infrared
microscope systems. Infrared (IR) spectroscopy can provide rich analysis of molecular bonds and has been
used in life sciences research to study tissue classification, drug/tissue interaction, neurodegenerative
diseases, cancer, and other areas. Conventional IR spectroscopy, however, has a fundamental spatial
resolution limit (i.e., roughly how small an object it can analyze) of around 10 micrometers, similar to the
size of an average biological cell. Thus, conventional IR spectroscopy has been extremely limited for many
biomedical applications where the structures of interest are smaller than a cell. Optical photothermal
infrared (O-PTIR) is a rapidly emerging field that uses a tightly focused visible probe beam to detect
infrared absorption in samples with <500 nm spatial resolution, far below the conventional optical
diffraction limit for mid-infrared wavelengths. Current commercial O-PTIR instruments, however, have
relatively slow measurement speeds requiring up to several minutes for a single image, and 10+ hours for
a hyperspectral measurement at high sp

Its activity falls under national institute of general medical sciences; the profile below is assembled from public directory data.

The business is associated with SANTA BARBARA, CA.

Directory data places it at the SBIR/STTR stage.

Its team size is recorded as 11-50 employees.

Total disclosed funding stands at about $959K.

Website: photothermal.com