TY  - GEN
A1  - Maier, Philipp
A1  - Wolf, Jürgen
A1  - Keilig, Thomas
A1  - Krabbe, Alfred
A1  - Duffard, Rene
A1  - Ortiz, Jose-Luis
A1  - Klinkner, Sabine
A1  - Lengowski, Michael
A1  - Müller, Thomas
A1  - Lockowandt, Christian
A1  - Krockstedt, Christian
A1  - Kappelmann, Norbert
A1  - Stelzer, Beate
A1  - Werner, Klaus
A1  - Geier, Stephan
A1  - Kalkuhl, Christoph
A1  - Rauch, Thomas
A1  - Schanz, Thomas
A1  - Barnstedt, Jürgen
A1  - Conti, Lauro
A1  - Hanke, Lars
T1  - Towards a European Stratospheric Balloon Observatory
BT  - the ESBO design study
T2  - Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VII
N2  - This paper presents the concept of a community-accessible stratospheric balloon-based observatory that is currently under preparation by a consortium of European research institutes and industry. We present the technical motivation, science case, instrumentation, and a two-stage image stabilization approach of the 0.5-m UV/visible platform. In addition, we briefly describe the novel mid-sized stabilized balloon gondola under design to carry telescopes in the 0.5 to 0.6 m range as well as the currently considered flight option for this platform. Secondly, we outline the scientific and technical motivation for a large balloon-based FIR telescope and the ESBO DS approach towards such an infrastructure.
KW  - astronomy
KW  - balloon telescopes
KW  - UV
KW  - far infrared
KW  - detectors
KW  - observatory
Y1  - 2018
SN  - 978-1-5106-1954-8
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2319248
SN  - 0277-786X
SN  - 1996-756X
VL  - 10700
PB  - SPIE-INT Soc Optical Engineering
CY  - Bellingham
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schmälzlin, Elmar Gerd
A1  - Moralejo, Benito
A1  - Gersonde, Ingo
A1  - Schleusener, Johannes
A1  - Darvin, Maxim E.
A1  - Thiede, Gisela
A1  - Roth, Martin M.
T1  - Nonscanning large-area Raman imaging for ex vivo/in vivo skin cancer discrimination
JF  - Journal of biomedical optics
N2  - Imaging Raman spectroscopy can be used to identify cancerous tissue. Traditionally, a step-by-step scanning of the sample is applied to generate a Raman image, which, however, is too slow for routine examination of patients. By transferring the technique of integral field spectroscopy (IFS) from astronomy to Raman imaging, it becomes possible to record entire Raman images quickly within a single exposure, without the need for a tedious scanning procedure. An IFS-based Raman imaging setup is presented, which is capable of measuring skin ex vivo or in vivo. It is demonstrated how Raman images of healthy and cancerous skin biopsies were recorded and analyzed. (C) The Authors. Published by SPIE under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
KW  - Raman spectroscopy
KW  - cancer diagnosis
KW  - Raman imaging
KW  - multichannel
KW  - astronomy
KW  - epidermis
KW  - dermis
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.23.10.105001
SN  - 1083-3668
SN  - 1560-2281
VL  - 23
IS  - 10
PB  - SPIE
CY  - Bellingham
ER  -