Archive

June 30th 2025
The last consortium meeting of REAP was hosted by MUW on 10th and 11th June in Vienna. Despite numerous challenges, the consortium accomplished many tasks over the last 4.5 years. Three different types of lasers, including photoacoustic microscopy excitation lasers from Picophotonics Ltd., an OPO from InnoLas Laser GmbH operating at 1 kHz repetition rate, and an interrogation laser from LioniX International were demonstrated in this last consortium meeting. Along with the laser development, the Tampere University team and the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology team have achieved beyond the state-of-the-art performance of the micro-ring resonator. A dual modality optical coherence photoacoustic microscopy system and a 2 photon laser scanning microscopy system from Miltenyi Biotec have been successfully assembled and waiting to be combined into a triple-modality imaging system at Center for Cancer Research of MUW with the software package developed by Politecnico di Torino. Contrast agents developed by AIT Austrian Institute of Technology and the team from the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela have yielded promising results in the MUW labs. In the last few weeks of the project duration, a final sprint of imaging will be done in MUW, showcasing the use of REAP technologies in in vitro model imaging as well as mouse imaging. The whole consortium agreed to continue the collaboration after the lifetime of REAP and maximize the impact of the project by both commercial exploitation and scientific dissemination. It is an amazing journey of 4.5 years for research institutions, SMEs, and large enterprises to work together to push the front of biophotonics. The output of REAP is soon to be reaped.