Company Details

Name Phase Focus
Year founded 2006
Category Medicine
University partner Sheffield
Biofusion shareholding 61%
Biofusion investment to date £400,000

Contact Details

Contact details  Ian Pykett
Phase Focus Limited
The Bioincubator
40 Leavygreave Road
Sheffield
S3 7RD
Telephone +44 (0) 114 275 5555
E-mail info@ianpykett.com

Company Background

Phase Focus is developing an alternative approach to microscopy and imaging that does not rely on sophisticated lenses and has applications in optical, X-ray and electron microscopy, amongst others. Professor John Rodenburg, a founder of Phase Focus, is the inventor of a process that can generate high definition images of an object without the need for the high quality lenses that account for a significant element of the cost of high-performance microscopes.

For the non-technical

All microscopes (optical, X-ray and electron) use lenses and this lens can account for up to 30% of the cost of the equipment. Phase Focus has invented a microscope that replaces the lens with a CCDV camera and a computer to reconstruct the image in a magnified 3D format that is not only cheaper but has a better performance than existing microscopes.


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