60 A Novel and Intuitive Operating Concept Revolutionises Raman Imaging
WITec, manufacturer of Raman and scanning-probe microscopes, presents a new operating concept with the powerful and intuitive Suite FIVE at Pittcon 2017. Sophisticated features and hands-on control transform the user experience, enabling the researcher to move from setup to results with unprecedented ease. Suite FIVE provides an integrated tool for data acquisition, evaluation and post-processing that enables researchers to quickly extract key information from their experiments. All Raman, AFM, SNOM and WITec correlative microscopy measurement modes are supported.
“Suite FIVE combines new functionality with a simplifi ed operating concept that encompasses both software and hardware. The greater automation and intuitive interface speed up the process and improves the results of data acquisition and analysis. It’s altogether more accessible and powerful,” said Dr Joachim Koenen, Managing Director at WITec.
Suite FIVE introduces several features for enhanced performance and usability:
A new software wizard guides the user through the complete investigation, from initial settings and acquisition through data and image post-processing. Presets and highlighted analytical paths accelerate the generation of high-quality images.
TrueComponent Analysis is a unique post-processing function for confocal Raman imaging measurements that automatically establishes the number of components in a sample, locates them in the image, and differentiates their individual spectra. This delivers meaningful, comprehensive information with one operation.
Hardware control from within the software has also been strengthened. The new handheld multifunction controller EasyLink provides a tactile and intuitive interface for directing the motorised stages, white light illumination, laser power, autofocus, cantilever positioning and objective selection with the new automated turret. This further integration of WITec’s hardware and software provides greater synergy and speed while transforming the user experience.
“TrueComponent Analysis is the standout technical achievement, without peer in the industry, though all the new features contribute to a transformed user experience. These are results-oriented developments with benefi ts that will be immediately apparent to the researcher,” said Dr Olaf Hollricher, Managing Director of R&D at WITec.
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Patent for Imaging and Microplate Reading in one Instrument Received
BioTek has been granted US patent 9,557,217 for imaging and microplate reading in one instrument. The intellectual property protected by this patent is used in BioTek’s award winning line of Cytation™ Cell Imaging Multi-Mode readers. Other patents are pending.
Cytation offers fl uorescence, brightfi eld, colour brightfi eld and phase contrast imaging up to 60x, and multi-mode detection optics that include fl uorescence intensity, luminescence, absorbance and advanced measurements such as fl uorescence polarisation, time-resolved fl uorescence and AlphaScreen®. Cytation systems are ideally suited to live cell assays, with incubation to 65°C, shaking, plus available CO2
/O2 control. Gen5™ Microplate Reader and Imager Software
controls all imaging and multi-mode instrument operations, and provides quantitative and qualitative image and data analysis for a wide range of applications including cell migration, label-free cell counting, phenotypic analysis, DNA/RNA quantifi cation or ROS assays.
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New Upright Microscope Range Announced
Motic Scientifi c Instruments makes a step forward with its newest upright microscope range, the Panthera series. The world of microscopy is an experienced world of precise scientifi c instruments with huge applications within all fi elds. The Panthera microscope series is a smart combination of user-friendly and advanced technology that, combined with a simple operational method of connectivity to the world of scientifi c instruments, embodies accuracy and precision.
Motic’s Panthera microscope series not only has a new and original design, but it also features a patented, rackless stage with a surprising never- seen-before sample holder, a coded LED nosepiece and a LED condenser that allow to automatise and simplify the user’s work. The new objectives with ultra-high contrast and very fl at Field of View, together with the new eyepieces, give bright, detailed and sharp images for new insights.
If there’s a word to defi ne the Panthera series, it is smart. Its most extraordinary feature, the new ImagingOnDevice System, offers endless options to work with digitised images, changing the conventional microscope concept by turning it into a complete digital microscopy workstation.
“In today’s daily life with the world at our fi ngertips, it is common to snap a picture, post it and share it with your social circle. Why not combine that? Why not take out the complexity of the scientifi c instrument by replacing it with simple-to-use connectivity? Why not make things easier?” said Sebastian Nunnendorf, Motic Scientifi c Instruments Product Developer.
Remarkable incorporations in terms of new contrast methods, and a wide range of intermediate modules and specifi c optics, make the Panthera series diverse and fi t for all environments. A whole new array of possibilities especially created to cover all areas, from the educational fi eld, going through to the most advanced models for clinics, laboratories and up to applications for industrial and material sciences.
The Panthera microscope series has been created to make workfl ow easier, with the intent of it not being just another work tool, but a fellow worker to trust in. Know more at
www.moticpanthera.com
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