In a new study, researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital developed a superconducting nanowire single photon detector (SNSPD)-based diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS) device with a high signal-to-noise ratio and high sensitivity for blood flow. (IMAGE)

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In a new study, researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital developed a superconducting nanowire single photon detector (SNSPD)-based diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS) device with a high signal-to-noise ratio and high sensitivity for blood flow.

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In a new study, researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital developed a superconducting nanowire single photon detector (SNSPD)-based diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS) device with a high signal-to-noise ratio and high sensitivity for blood flow. This study marks one of the first-ever applications of SNSPDs in a biomedical setting. The figure shows the setup for blood flow measurement using SNSPD- and SPAD-based DCS devices.

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Ozana et al., doi 10.1117/1.NPh.8.3.035006.

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