The user interface is designed to make imaging quick and convenient, even for new users. All options are pre-configured and calibrated across the different plate formats available and with options to cover different imaging applications.
To get started, simply select the plate type you wish to image:
All plate formats come pre-configured
There are three main types of lighting:
Bottom Light: This emits diffuse light from below through the sample and into the camera. It is ideal for high-contrast imaging of plates, especially for applications like CFU counting. This only works with translucent samples.
Top Light: This uses a ring-shaped lighting device in the camera head to illuminate the sample from above. The result is more realistic morphologies and color representations. The top light mode works with any object, including non-translucent samples and substrates such as soil, yogurt, and many others.
Fluorescence Imaging: This imaging mode combines top light at high exposure times with a built-in filter device in the camera head to selectively block certain wavelengths. This enables the imaging system to capture complete fluorescent time-lapse recordings along with bright-field images.
Up to 4 lighting modes can be selected at the same time
Examples of bottom light and top light being used in conjunction on the same plate to image fungal growth:
Top light
Bottom light
Two different plates showcasing bacterial colonies with bottom light and top light:
Example of a Petri tray timelapse imaged with bottom light preset:
The capture interval and duration can be selected at the bottom. Jobs can be extended or stopped after they are started from the job list.
The capture interval can be anywhere from every 10 minutes to every 12 hours
The desired Target temperature can be selected before you start a job. In order to guarantee optimal results the Target temperature should be +5º above room temperature otherwise the job might fail.
Note : Target temperature max 40º.
Images can be downloaded from the "data export" panel in bulk if required.
How our Imaging Device takes pictures:
The 96-well and 384-well plates are the only formats where we capture images of 4 and 16 wells at a time, respectively. This results in a total of 24 images per plate for these two formats.
For all other plate formats, we capture one image per well.