oCelloScope - Automated Microbial Live-Cell Imaging and Analysis
Automatically acquire and analyze images of your bacterial cells, fungus and yeast with real-time microscopic kinetic data
Description
Do you know how your microbial cells develop?
Using the oCelloScope, get more information and insight about your cells with real-time kinetic data. The oCelloScope will automatically acquire and analyze images within standard microtiter plates, and will free up researchers' time, increasing sample throughput and delivering richer data.
The oCelloScope is a unique live-cell imaging system for sensitive and detailed monitoring of biological growth and development. The oCelloScope system integrates 3 key features:
- Unique proprietary scanning technology, FluidScope™
- Powerful image analysis software
- Precision mechanical engineering
The 3 key features used together provide detailed information, enabling researchers to set up high-throughput testing and robust time-lapse studies.
How can you benefit from live-cell image analysis with oCelloScope?
By combining continuous real-time imaging and powerful image analysis software with oCelloScope:
- You will never miss a data point again
- Capture and profile time dependent events
- Analyze microbial growth and development
- Visualize and validate the results with images and videos
Benefits
Speed
- 250 times more sensitive than a plate reader (OD)
- Measure and visualize down to 5 x 103 CFU/ml
- Growth kinetic MIC results in few hours Vs 16-20h using BMD
- FluidScope™ technology scans a full 96-well plate in less than 3 minutes
Early Phase Morphology
- Compare growth kinetic curves with images from each time-point
- Discover microorganism adaptation strategies
- Capture and quantify morphological changes over time
- Spheroplasts, Filamentation, Co-aggregation, Fungal spore germination
Value
- Full flexibility - use your standard microtiter plates
- You get full software package to use on multiple PCs
- No expensive annual service contract
- Competitive pricing. Rent or Purchase - just ask for a quotation
oCelloScope Workflow
With oCelloScope and the powerful UniExplorer software your research is supported day and night
Make your experiment in any environment
- oCelloScope fits inside your incubator or anaerobic chamber
- Compatible with standard microtiter plates, from 6 to 96 wells
Setup automated acquisition and analysis
- Easy-to-use user interface for simple and flexible setup of your experiment
- Auto-focus and auto-illumination secures high quality data
Acquire images for as long as you like
- Automatically acquire images for hours, days, or weeks
- Use UniExplorer's continue mode for running multiple long-term experiments simultaneously
View and Analyze in real-time
- Follow you experiment in real-time with visualization of images and analysis
- Get an instant overview of your full 96-well plate
- Analyze single cells and mixed cultures
FluidScope™ scanning technology
oCelloScope is based on a unique optical scanning technology FluidScope™ combining optical techniques such as phase contrast, brightfield and confocal-like microscopy.
Together with advanced image processing algorithims, the FluidScope™ technology provides:
- Fast scanning of a volume in the sample
- Greater freedom of operation with multiple Z-layers acquired simultaneously
- Detailed 3D information at a single cell level
- Requires no pre-treatment, staining, or additional reagents
Measurement Specifications
| Sample objects |
Most objects in (semi) transparent substances/liquid/agar can be analyzed, e.g.:
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| Sample matrix | Liquid and agar |
| Detectable density (sample concentration) | From 103 objects/mL |
| Detectable object size | 0.5 μm - 1 mm |
| Maximum scanning speed | 2 minutes 36 seconds (96-wells) |
| Optical magnification | 4x |
| Optical resolution | 1.3 μm |
| Camera | 5 Mpx, CCD, pixel size: 2.2 μm |
| Optical principle | FluidScope™ (patent pending) |
Environmental Specifications
| Operating temperature | 10 - 40ºC |
| Operating humidity | 20 - 93% RH |
Dimensions
| Dimensions (D x W x H) | 450 x 260 x 250 mm (with open lid: H = 550 mm) |
| Weight | 9.6 kg |
| Connectors | RJ45 (Ethernet) |
