Navitar Imaging Technologies: Powering New

Navitar Imaging Technologies: Powering New Medical Devices and Equipment for Breakthrough Discoveries

Jeremy Goldstein, CEO, Navitar, Inc.

Speed and Discovery.

Medical device and equipment companies face intense pressure to develop innovative products to improve health care services and procedures, advance scientific discovery, and push the limits of life science research.

Teams of engineers and instrument design specialists must move these novel product ideas from concept to product on at breakneck speed while adhering to strict regulatory requirements.

The successful and effi cient launch of these products often requires a manufacturing partner with extensive experience in designing custom optics, cameras, illumination, and fully integrated imaging solutions.

Unique optical configurations, state-of-the-art vision technologies, and quick time-to-market strategies are key differentiating factors that provide medical device companies the necessary competitive advantage over their competitors.

Navitar has over 60 years of optical engineering and manufacturing experience, having created thousands of unique lens systems and integrated camera and lens solutions for OEM medical device and equipment manufacturers all over the world.

Medical device developers are looking for a better understanding of optics. We are the innovative partner to turn their ideas into reality. (Navitar CEO, Jeremy Goldstein )”

Navitar custom lens designs are being used by OEM’s, medical engineers, researchers and scientists at the forefront of:

• DNA Sequencing • Tissue Imaging • Cancer Diagnostics • Live Cell Imaging/In Vitro Diagnostics • Cell Sorting, Screening, Imaging, & Viability • Infectious Disease Diagnostics • Microfluidic Imaging • Digital Pathology & Liquid Biopsy • Flow Cytometry • Blood Testing & Diagnostics

Optics Know-How

The camera sensor and lens are critical components that aff ect instrument performance.

Camera sensor and lens must be designed together, actively aligned, and integrated for optimized system performance. When chosen independently and then combined, without design Optimization and alignment, cost overruns often occur trying to debug the imaging system and troubleshoot inconsistent performance from device to device.

Off -the-shelf imaging components can cause frustration.

At the heart of many medical instruments is a microscope objective, often being the single biggest factor in determining the resolution of the imaging system. Most off -the-shelf microscope objectives are not optimized for a particular application but are typically set for best performance at the center of the field of view (FOV).

Color correction is either limited or too broad, and there is great variability between objectives. Variability in product performance is a problem for today’s instrument repeatability requirements. Researchers must keep the variables consistent for better, more reliable data, such as when comparing drug therapies to cure cancer or endeavoring to discover new vaccines.

By designing to a customer’s specific application requirements Navitar custom optical designs reduce system complexity, while decreasing costs and significantly improving system performance compared to off -the-shelf solutions.

Finding the best-fit design configuration of lensing and camera sensors for these innovative, cutting-edge products, enables instrument manufacturers to set new standards of performance. Features such as sharper images of cell tissue, wider field of view for larger sample sizes, custom illumination for better detection of variants, and faster data capture, all contribute to competitive success as well as further advancement of medical science.

The camera sensor resolution and designed resolution of the individual lens can often be different than the resolution and performance available of the combined standard components.

A variance in resolution could be the result of some mismatch between the speed of the lens (f/#), wavelength of light, working distance, and pixel size of the camera sensor.

If the alignment of the lens to the camera sensor is not tight enough, even a lens with a specific resolution may not yield the complete system resolution desired. Navitar maximizes final imaging system performance by matching camera sensor pixel size to the ideal diffraction limited imaging optics.

The design team at Navitar understands the importance of optically modeling the right sensor and lens combinations and objective and tube lens combinations required to achieve optimal optical system performance.

A well-thought-out opto-mechanical design can manage electronic and thermal noise and provide customized board-level camera formats to help reduce instrument size, weight, and cost.

In-house lens-sensor active alignment processes ensure final system performance is maximized.

Navitar’s experience in customizing standard cameras includes:

• Custom auto-focus camera system for proprietary image acquisition and measurement technology.

• Custom firmware and FPGA code.

• Custom medical grade camera systems with integrated AI and hyperspectral image sensor offering images in segmented wavelengths.

• Custom interfaces for proprietary computational imaging methods.

• Custom dual sensor / stereoscopic systems.

Navitar has experience working with a wide range of equipment makers and applica on areas with companies around the world.

Engineering design and development is just one aspect of the medical device product development process, along with securing intellectual property (IP), and ensuring compliance with FDA regulations.

Navitar understands FDA, ISO 13485, IEC, FCC, and CE requirements, as well as the manufacturing documentation required to facilitate rapid product development and speedy product commercialization.

Navitar’s goal is to deliver innovative integrated imaging solutions to medical device and equipment companies in a timely, cost-effective manner, setting new standards for optical performance and life-changing scientific discovery.

Together, Navitar and medical researchers and scientists can drive innovation in science and medicine, to achieve what was once impossible.

Setting new standards for performance and beating the competition doesn’t happen by accident. It happens by design. (Navitar CEO, Jeremy Goldstein)

Headquartered in Rochester, NY, Navitar offers optical design and manufacturing of precision imaging lenses and complete integrated solutions for Life Science, Military & Defense, Industrial, Space, Planetarium, Simulation, Amusement and more.

Jeremy Goldstein is co-owner and CEO of Navitar, Inc.

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