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Barbara Foster
Barbara Foster
Beginning her microscopy career as a professional trainer in optical microscopy, metrology, confocal, and image analysis, Barbara Foster quickly evolved into a Technical Marketing Manager/Director for key companies including Unitron (a Nikon spin-off), Carl Zeiss, Cambridge/Reichert, and Sarastro. Since 1991, she has run her own strategic consulting firm (The Microscopy
& Imaging Place, Inc.). She has been involved in the launch of 7 companies and over 100 products ranging from biotech to semiconductors; AFMs, confocals, image analysis, and hybrid microscopy/spectroscopy instruments.
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Articles by Barbara Foster
TERS—Ready or Not?
Thursday, September 01, 2016
Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, or TERS, integrates scanning probe microscopy (SPM) for nano-scale imaging with confocal Raman spectroscopy for chemical characterization.
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Portable Raman Microscopy: Laboratory-Quality Results Measured Anywhere
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
While handheld portable Raman is now well established, until recently, microRaman had yet to make the leap out of the laboratory and into the world at large. To meet that challenge, BioTools (Jupiter...
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Pittcon 2015: The Microscopic View
Monday, March 16, 2015
The story in microscopy at Pittcon 2015 is the total integration of microscopy with spectroscopy. Here is a quick review of nearly two dozen companies on the show floor, listed alphabetically under ...
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Product Intelligence: Fluorescence Microscopy: Fundamentals and Resources
Monday, March 17, 2014
Biologists are increasingly turning to fluorescence as their contrast method of choice. In addition to finding application in materials science, medicine, pharma, and semiconductors, fluorescence is ...
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Integrating Microscopy Into the Analytical Scheme: A Pittcon® 2014 Microscopy Review
Monday, February 24, 2014
Microscopy is often overlooked at Pittcon®, yet of the 12,000+ scientists who attend, approximately 30% use microscopy in some form (according to ongoing research from The Microscopy & Imaging Place, ...
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Putting the “More” in Morphology: Part 2
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Part 1 of this article discussed the impact of multiplexing morphological methods, multiparametric techniques, and supervised machine-learning to answer the question "what" is there, as well as "where...
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Putting the “More” in Morphology: Part 1
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Segmentation, the ability to define the unique features in a region of interest, has always been the greatest challenge in image analysis and quantitation. A new suite of tools, available from ...
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Microscopy + Spectroscopy: Pittcon® 2013 Celebrates the Power of Two
Thursday, March 07, 2013
The year 2013 celebrates a new benchmark for imaging at Pittcon
®
. Historically, Pittcon has not been considered an imaging meeting, despite the fact that a review of Pittcon 2012 statistics revealed ...
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Micro Raman at Pittcon
®
2012
Monday, May 07, 2012
Micro Raman was big news at Pittcon® 2012. While the hardware has stabilized, there were intriguing new developments in the science and its applications.
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Microscopy: Imaging Broader, Diving Deeper
Monday, April 09, 2012
In previous articles and editorials, the life sciences have been defined as the “next big growth area” in microscopy, spectroscopy, and related imaging techniques.
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New Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) Approaches Life Sciences Gently, Quantitatively, and Correlatively
Monday, April 09, 2012
As discussed in last November’s Editor’s Page, the life sciences are the key sector propelling growth in microscopy and imaging.
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The State of Microscopy for 2012
Tuesday, November 01, 2011
In various recent interviews, I’ve been asked about the state of microscopy and, most specifically, the rise of technologies such as AFM (atomic force microscopy) and Raman confocal and the ...
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Light-Emitting Diodes: A New Solution for Fluorescence
Saturday, October 01, 2011
From the dramatic increase in new fluorophores to the proliferation of techniques like total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF), photoactivated localization microscopy (PALM), and stochastic...
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New Solutions for Surface Texture Analysis
Monday, November 01, 2010
Most microscopists are familiar with confocal microscopy from neuroscience or cell biology. However, very quietly and abruptly, confocal has jumped the fence into industry, becoming a major tool-of-...
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Focus on Microscopy: One Button and Two Heads—Mainstreaming AFM
Friday, April 17, 2009
The past decade has seen dramatic growth in scanning probe microscopy (SPM) technology, both in functionality and in broader acceptance. Market research conducted in mid-2007 by The Microscopy and ...
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