📢 If you’re attending, come find Edwin & Alberto to chat with during the conference!

Edwin will be presenting:
“A New Methodology for Characterizing Medical Laparoscope Fluorescence Imaging Performance With 3D-Printed Phantoms”

Alberto will be presenting:
“Characterizing Fluorescence Uniformity and Distortion of Near-Infrared Fluorescence-Guided Imaging Systems”

Join us at Optica Biophotonics Congress!
📅 April 26–29, 2026
📍 Fort Lauderdale, FL

We’re excited to be presenting two talks at the System Performance & Validation section.

#OpticaBiophotonicsCongress

🔗 Explore more:
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🌍 By capturing variability in tissue properties, we help teams design, validate, and position their technologies for broader global adoption.

Define your wavelengths, target optical properties, and anatomy. We’ll create a phantom customized for your use case.

📊 This multi-layer skin phantom includes five distinct materials, with ~200 µm epidermal layers to represent varying melanin content—enabling more realistic testing across diverse patient populations.

🔬 Can your imaging system handle real-world tissue variability?

With our OptiBlox® Q-X heterogeneous phantoms, each layer is engineered with tunable and fully characterized optical properties, giving you confidence in both development and validation.

Optical Tissue Phantoms and Characterization Services - QUEL Imaging No fluorophore? No problem! OptiBlox® phantoms are available in standard formulations and sizes, each supplied with a lot-specific optical property report for quality and reproducibility. We specializ...

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This example colon phantom includes distinct mucosa and blood-mimicking regions, with measured optical properties to support quantitative imaging workflows.

Tell us your wavelengths, target optical properties, and anatomy —we’ll build a phantom tailored to your application.

We design and manufacture solid, anatomically relevant phantoms with tunable optical properties across VIS / NIR / SWIR. Each phantom is co-manufactured with optical reference standards, providing measured absorption and reduced scattering data for confident validation.

🔬 Testing biomedical imaging systems shouldn’t rely on guesswork.

Optical phantoms need the right geometry and optical properties to be meaningful, but achieving both is challenging. With our OptiBlox® Q-X heterogeneous phantoms, we bridge that gap.

🛠️ Component selection for your fluorescence imaging system can be tricky.

Our latest blog post walks you through our approach with our latest NIR fluorescence imaging system build. We cover cameras, lenses, illumination, software, and more.

Check it out today!
blog.quelimaging.com/fluoviz-pt2

Say Hello to Quelo! - QUEL Imaging It’s debated whether Quelo The Reindeer’s near infrared light-emitting nose and antlers are due to advanced technological advancements, or the product of natural evolution of the magical Rangifer genu...

Read about Quelo’s full story: shop.quelimaging.com/2021/12/09/s...

#phantoms #fluorescence #imaging

Fun fact: Quelo’s antlers and nose are made from the same coin and vessel phantoms we use for fluorescence demos! 🌟
Coin phantoms allow for a quick fluorescence check, while vessel phantoms introduce structure and branching.

Quelo brings both together, turning fluorescence into a fun story.

Vessel phantoms bring the next step to fluorescence demos: can my imaging system show structures? 🧐

Where coin phantoms help with quick simple fluorescence checks, vessel phantoms add geometry and structure, as shown with our demo system from #PhotonicsWest.

#phantoms #fluorescence #imaging

Fluorescence demos made fun! 🌟

Coin caps let us add logos or images to coin phantoms, making quick fluorescence checks more engaging and memorable.

Reach out to discuss custom coin cap designs!

#phantoms #fluorescence #imaging #coinphantoms

Not every fluorescence check needs a full reference target or a complex experimental setup.

Coin phantoms are one of the fastest ways to sanity-check that your imaging system works.

#fluorescence #phantoms

✨Introducing a new series: Questions with Quelo! ✨ (We love all things that start with Q 😉)

Our mascot Quelo will be answering common questions about QUEL Imaging, phantoms, biomedical optics, and more!

To kick things off, Quelo is introducing the company and what we do!

📅 January 16, 2026
📍 Ka Shing Center (LKSC), Stanford, CA
🔗 Link to register: www.onlineregistrationcenter.com/register/222...

#SurgicalNavigation #Fluorescence #Imaging #Phantoms #BiomedicalOptics

QUEL Imaging is proud to be sponsoring the 2026 Stanford Symposium on Optical Surgical Navigation on January 16th! Come chat with us about our phantoms/services 👻 and check out Ethan's presentation. Hope to see you there!

From Ugly Sweater Day 🎄 to a pizza-making class 🍕, our office holiday celebrations were full of fun and friendly competition! It turns out that precise measurements, team spirit, and the right ingredients matter whether you’re making pizza or phantoms 👻.

🌟Happy holidays from the QUEL Imaging team!🌟

We can’t wait to see what’s in store for 2026! 🎉

2025 was a big year for us at QUEL Imaging! We’re so grateful to everyone who helped make it happen. You may have seen our new products, papers, phantoms, or the team at different conferences throughout the year, but in case you missed any of it, here’s our 2025 recap!

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PRESS RELEASE: QUEL Imaging and INO Announce Technology Transfer to Advance Biomedical Optics

Read the full press release: www.quelimaging.com/news/2025-11...

This National Cancer Institute (NCI)-funded design concept uses literature-reported optical properties of colon tissue combined with our FluoFlow® technology to demonstrate dynamic flow detection within an optical tissue phantom.

FluoFlow Colon YouTube video by QUEL Imaging

🎥 Check out the flow channels in action: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS85...

Wrapping up this week’s highlights with OpsiClear featuring something dynamic: the 3D Gaussian splat of a FluoFlow® Colon Phantom 💡

🔗 FluoFlow® Colon Phantom 3D Gaussian Splat: superspl.at/view?id=3ede...

GitHub - QUEL-Imaging/quel-qal Contribute to QUEL-Imaging/quel-qal development by creating an account on GitHub.

You can explore some of the analysis tools we’ve developed for this project on our open-source repository:
👉 github.com/QUEL-Imaging...

The lung phantom features a top and bottom portion, allowing for the inclusion of fluorescent tumor inserts. This lung phantom integrates our experimental and analytical pipelines, allowing for detailed visualization and quantification of lung-mimicking optical phantoms.