June 2021 – Cal Lab Magazine

NIST-Led Study Finds Variations in Quantitative MRI Scanners’ Measurements | NIST

June 30, 2021 Office

June 30, 2021 Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is widely used in medicine to detect, diagnose and treat diseases such as cancer, while relying on experts’ interpretation of images. Quantitative MRI, which obtains numerical measurements during […]

Big Berthas used to measure laser power | Wright-Patterson AFB News

June 29, 2021 Office

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio (AFLCMC) – The Air Force Metrology and Calibration Division is using some unique mobile “Big Bertha” series High Energy Laser primary reference calorimeters to support Air Force Research Laboratory’s national defense programs […]

Additel’s New 226 and 227 Multifunction Process Calibrator Series

June 29, 2021 Office

June 29, 2021, Brea, California – Additel’s new Multi-functional Process Calibrator series takes portability, functionality, and accuracy to a whole new level and packages it with an intuitive and easy to use color touchscreen display. […]

Escape From Flatland: Calibration Method Enables Microscopes to Make Accurate Measurements in All 3 Dimensions | NIST

June 24, 2021 Office

June 24, 2021 Conventional microscopes provide essential information about samples in two dimensions — the plane of the microscope slide. But flat is not all that. In many instances, information about the object in the […]

Temperature Calibrations, Part 2

June 15, 2021 Office

by Ryan Egbert and Joseph Rindone The following article is part two of a four-part Metrology 101 series focusing on temperature. The written content provided here is also intended to be combined with demonstration videos […]

Implementing a Calibration Management Software System in a Regulated Environment

June 15, 2021 Office

by Walter Nowocin Implementing a Calibration Management Software System is a critical process for a calibration laboratory, especially in a bio-medical regulated environment. However, there are few examples or documents that explain this process from […]

Metrology Education at Michigan’s Monroe County Community College

June 15, 2021 Office

by Michael L. Taylor Monroe County Community College (MCCC) was created in Monroe County Michigan in 1964. Since that time, it has undergone a good variety of change and growth. The original metrology program began […]

Multiple Levels to Metrology Software

June 15, 2021 Michael Schwartz

I have been developing automated calibration procedures for more than 20 years now, and if there is one thing I have learned is no two projects are the same! Metrology Software and its complexity can […]