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We report on a multimodal 230 W multiphoton tomograph, MPTcompact, featuring “green photonics”. This includes an air-cooled femtosecond fiber laser of low energy consumption instead of the 1 kW femtosecond laser tomographs with water-cooled tunable titanium:sapphire laser. The fiber laser tomograph can be operated with two 12V, 33Ah VRLA batteries.
Flexible solar panels connected via an Anderson power plug have been employed to recharge the system without removing batteries from the medical cart. Applications of this autonomous operating tomograph are high-resolution skin imaging to obtain optical biopsies directly at the patient’s location, including remote areas and on battlefields. Furthermore, on-site in vivo deep tissue multimodal imaging (autofluorescence, SHG, FLIM, confocal reflectance), e.g., on trees, algae, plants, and animals, is possible.
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