Our Services
Quantitative tools and expertise for developing, validating, and translating biomedical optical sensing technologies.
Explore Our Biomedical Optics Services
Select a service below to learn how we can support your development, validation, and clinical translation goals.
Integrated Support from Characterization to Clinical Translation
Every imaging program has a different starting point. Our services can be used independently or combined into an integrated workflow spanning optical characterization, device validation, simulation, regulatory strategy, and clinical studies. Explore each capability below, or tell us about your project and we will help identify the right place to start.
- Designed for reproducible device validation and quantitative imaging workflows
- Support for simulation, regulatory, and translational imaging studies
- Tunable optical absorption and scattering properties
- Custom fluorescence and spectral contrast formulations
- Anatomically realistic geometries and multi-material structures
- Tissue-equivalent materials for visible, NIR, and SWIR imaging
- Dynamic and flow-compatible phantom integrations available
- Adjustable mechanical compliance and tissue elasticity
Fluorescence Spectral Characterization
World-class, traceable, quantitative fluorescence spectroscopy services.
QUEL Imaging provides fluorescence spectral characterization services using world-leading excitation-emission matrix (EEM) measurements to generate comprehensive spectral profiles of fluorophores, contrast agents, and tissue-equivalent materials.
Our measurement services provide the quantitative rigor and expertise needed to support your fluorescence-guided surgery, probe development, phantom validation, or quantitative imaging applications.
Key Deliverables:
- Excitation-emission matrix (EEM) fluorescence characterization report
- Characterization for phantom development and imaging system validation
- Support for regulatory and translational imaging device and probe submissions
Characterize fluorophores using comprehensive spectral analysis workflows.
Contact QUEL Imaging to discuss fluorescence spectral characterization, phantom validation studies, and quantitative imaging support.
Optical Property Characterization
World-class expertise, traceable measurements, confident reports.
QUEL Imaging provides quantitative optical property characterization services of your materials using world-class integrating sphere spectrophotometry with Inverse Adding-Doubling (IAD) analysis across the visible, near infrared, and short wave infrared spectral regimes (400-2000 nm).
Key Features/Specs:
- Quantitative optical properties report
- Integrating sphere spectrophotometry
- Broad spectral bandwidth measurements across the visible, NIR, and SWIR regime (400–2000 nm)
- High spectral resolution (<5nm)
- Internationally-validated Inverse Adding-Doubling (IAD) analysis
- NIST-traceable absolute Reflectance and Transmittance
Generate quantitative optical property data using validated characterization techniques.
Contact QUEL Imaging to discuss optical property measurements, phantom development, and imaging validation workflows.
Device Characterization Support
The technical foundation your device program needs.
Expert guidance for imaging device characterization and validation. QUEL Imaging helps teams develop strategies and methodologies for fluorescence-guided imaging systems and biomedical optical devices.
Leveraging world-leading expertise in tissue optics, quantitative imaging, and phantom development, we support reproducible device testing using both standardized and custom phantom platforms.
Key Deliverables:
- Preliminary device technical specifications
- Performance characterization protocol development
- Verification testing methodology
- Custom target design and development
Develop robust device characterization workflows with guidance from experts in tissue optics and quantitative imaging.
Contact QUEL Imaging to discuss how we can help.
Regulatory Support
Technical expertise for translational and regulatory imaging success.
QUEL Imaging provides technical and regulatory support services for fluorescence-guided imaging systems, quantitative imaging platforms, and optical medical devices pursuing translational and regulatory pathways including 510(k) and PMA submissions. Our expertise in tissue optics, system characterization, phantom development, and quantitative imaging validation helps device developers generate rigorous performance data and support reproducible, scientifically grounded regulatory documentation.
Key Support Areas:
- Regulatory Strategy and Gap Analyses
- Drafting material for regulatory submissions, amendments, and supplements
- Predicate Device Identification and Equivalency Testing Methods
- Technical Documentation and Standards Compliance
- Regulatory Communication Support
- V&V, Post-Market, and Ongoing Advisory
The optical device regulatory landscape is moving. Your strategy should be ahead of it.
Contact QUEL Imaging to discuss regulatory support services.
Simulation Services
Simulate light transport. Predict performance. Optimize design.
QUEL Imaging provides optical Monte Carlo simulation and digital twin development services for quantitative modeling of light transport in tissue, phantoms, and imaging systems. Using experimentally validated optical properties and anatomically relevant digital models, we help developers predict system performance, optimize device design, establish imaging workflows, and support quantitative fluorescence and biomedical optics applications.
Key Deliverables:
- Optical Monte Carlo simulation reports and datasets
- Custom digital twin models of tissue, phantoms, or imaging systems
- Quantitative light transport and fluorescence response analysis
- Comparative simulation and experimental validation studies
- Visualization outputs for system design and performance evaluation
- Device design recommendations
Model light transport and imaging performance using validated optical simulation workflows.
Contact QUEL Imaging to discuss how simulation capabilities can accelerate your team’s device development.
Multi-Center Imaging Study Support
Supporting reproducible imaging performance across clinical sites.
QUEL Imaging provides multi-center imaging study support services for fluorescence-guided surgery, quantitative imaging, and translational optical imaging trials. We help organizations standardize imaging workflows across sites through customized phantom development, imaging performance validation, data collection strategy guidance, quantitative analysis support, and training tools designed to improve consistency before patient enrollment begins.
Key Features/Specs:
- Custom training and validation phantom platforms
- Imaging workflow and acquisition guidance documentation
- Site qualification and device performance assessment reports
- Quantitative image analysis support and datasets
Improve consistency and reproducibility across imaging study sites with phantom-based validation and quantitative imaging expertise.
Contact QUEL Imaging to discuss multi-center study support, training phantoms, imaging validation, and quantitative analysis workflows for clinical and translational imaging programs.
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