Hamamatsu Orca Flash2.8 CMOS camera: Performance compared to the C9100-13 EMCCD and the Orca ER

Complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) chips are common in consumer digital cameras but have not been favoured in low light level imaging applications because of poor sensitivity and high noise. Recently a series of scien- tific CMOS cameras have been launched which promise improvements in b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vaughan, AN
Format: Still Image
Language:unknown
Published: 2011
Subjects:
EMCCD
CMOS
Orca
Online Access:http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1368717/
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Summary:Complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) chips are common in consumer digital cameras but have not been favoured in low light level imaging applications because of poor sensitivity and high noise. Recently a series of scien- tific CMOS cameras have been launched which promise improvements in both the above areas as well as having the potential for increased resolution and readout speed over the traditionally preferred CCD chips. Our tests were de- signed to compare the Hamamatsu C11440-10C Orca Flash2.8 CMOS camera to a conventional C4742-95 Orca ER CCD camera commonly used in fluorescence microscopy applications and a C9100-13 EMCCD camera which is used for very low light level work and is capable of high speed acquisition.

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