The company designs, manufactures and distributes scientific imaging devices equipped with scientific complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (sCMOS), complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) and charge-coupled device (CCD) sensor technology.
In 2016, the company introduced the ﬁrst luminescence lifetime imaging camera based on a high frequency modulated CMOS image sensor which is called pco.flim.
The pco.flim CMOS camera can be used for a vast variety of biomedical applications that require a large frame and high-speed acquisition.

The new technology for sCMOS (scientific CMOS) image sensors was launched in 2009 during the Laser World of Photonics fair in Munich as Joint Venture from PCO with the companies Andor Technology and Fairchild Camera and Instrument.

In general, CCD-based cameras offer high sensitivity but slow sampling speeds.
Conventional CMOS cameras offer very fast frame rates but compromise dynamic range.
sCMOS image sensors, on the other hand, offer extremely low noise, rapid frame rates, wide dynamic range, high quantum efficiency, high resolution, and a large field of view simultaneously in one image.
This makes them particularly suitable for high fidelity, quantitative scientific measurement and low-light-level conditions.
The company designs, manufactures and distributes scientific imaging devices equipped with scientific complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (sCMOS), complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) and charge-coupled device (CCD) sensor technology. In 2016, the company introduced the ﬁrst luminescence lifetime imaging camera based on a high frequency modulated CMOS image sensor which is called pco.flim. The pco.flim CMOS camera can be used for a vast variety of biomedical applications that require a large frame and high-speed acquisition.
The new technology for sCMOS (scientific CMOS) image sensors was launched in 2009 during the Laser World of Photonics fair in Munich as Joint Venture from PCO with the companies Andor Technology and Fairchild Camera and Instrument.
In general, CCD-based cameras offer high sensitivity but slow sampling speeds. Conventional CMOS cameras offer very fast frame rates but compromise dynamic range. sCMOS image sensors, on the other hand, offer extremely low noise, rapid frame rates, wide dynamic range, high quantum efficiency, high resolution, and a large field of view simultaneously in one image. This makes them particularly suitable for high fidelity, quantitative scientific measurement and low-light-level conditions.
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