Meet imaging researcher Ian Anthony and the TRIFT mass spectrometer. If you compare the TRIFT to a typical digital camera, it’s slow—capturing only 600,000 pixels per second (your smartphone can probably capture ~24,000,000 pixels in a fraction of a second). The reason mass spectrometry is slow is because it involves not just capturing an optical image but also analyzing and recording detailed information for each pixel (like the subject’s chemical composition). Ian and team are working to validate a new technique using fast mass microscopy that could potentially speed up data capture and help researchers in the lab get faster, more reliable results. #ImagingTheFuture #imaging #science #biology #microscopy #MassSpectrometry