Renishaw’s new StreamLine Plus Raman imaging system was unveiled at ICORS 2008 this year. A unique development of Renishaw’s StreamLine rapid Raman imaging system, StreamLine Plus is a further ten times faster thanks to optimisation of software, detector hardware, and the use of Renishaw’s new MS10 high speed microscope stage. It is now possible to collect spatially resolved chemical information from samples as large and complex as whole pharmaceutical tablets in under 4 minutes. According to Prof. Duncan Graham, University of Strathclyde; “The StreamLine mapping capability has opened new avenues for our research due to the ability to obtain high quality spectra from a large area in a short time and, due to the line scan, with minimal sample damage.”