SmartScope - Unattended Motorized Image Capture System
SmartScope is an advanced motorized imaging solution, designed to operate unattended, allowing high efficiency and consistent results. This system is ideal for applications requiring detailed and panoramic imaging, with full flexibility in microscopy techniques.
Main Features:
- Sample Capacity: Holds up to 2 sample holders (75x25 mm) per unit.
- Full Compatibility: Works with all microscopy techniques including transmitted light, epi-fluorescence and materials analysis.
- Intelligent Autofocus: Automatic focus system for sharp images every time.
- Mosaic Capture: Allows the capture of mosaics using image matrices on three axes (X, Y, Z), with no limit on images.
- Advanced Processing Software: The included software automatically generates the panoramic image from the captured mosaics.
- Optimal Motion Algorithm: Uses a square spiral motion algorithm (matrices in XY - n^2 format), optimizing the quality of the captures.
- High Productivity and Low Cost: High Throughput Microscopy solution at an affordable cost.
- Reliability and Traceability: Consistent results with complete traceability in each capture.
- Easy-to-Use Microscopy: Intuitive interface allows easy handling for the user, even without advanced experience.
- Unattended Capture: The system can operate autonomously, capturing multiple fields at different depths of focus and generating integrated images with the best focus areas.
- Universal Compatibility: Compatible with all microscopy illumination techniques, ensuring flexibility in use.
Benefits:
- Automatic capture of panoramic images , without limitation on the number of images captured.
- High quality and precision images , obtaining the best focus areas automatically.
- Easy integration into any laboratory or research environment , thanks to its user-friendly interface and its ability to operate without constant intervention.
samples. In each of the entries we can select a type of sample according to the size of the wells
and the number of them in the sample. If we do not select anything in any of them, it will not be
will be taken into account when scanning the sample in the following tabs.
In this tab the user should carry out the initial configuration of the image capture system,
that is, choosing the gain values, selecting the exposure and manually focusing the sample. We must also
choose, as required, the directory where the captured images will be saved. And optionally,
choose another name for the image or images that we will save. If you do not select it, it will be used
the name that appears by default. On the other hand, and so that this name is not repeated from previous experiments,
an incremental added to the same name would be created
In this section we give the user the possibility to move to the center of the wells that we have in each one.
of the sample holders loaded into the system.
We will choose the following options:
“Sample Container” with which of the four sample holders do we want to work?
“Sample” is the type of sample that we will find in the selected position. We will have to
Select this data because it will provide us with the data to get to the center of the well where we
we want to locate, that is, the XY position relative to the beginning of the platen.
"Well" which of the wells we have in the sample is where we want to go
“Move center” the button that executes the movement to the center of the selected well
In this section we will have the option to capture the images of the different wells, so
unattended, and then save the obtained data in a given directory.
Buttons and screen elements:
“Capture wells” starts capturing images for the wells we have selected. There are
to keep in mind that every time we start the capture of a well, before starting the
program will perform the autofocus function for the current well.
The number of images captured will be given by the width of the well we are scanning and
the width that the camera gives us, depending on the lens we are using at that time
(OBJ section parameter in configuration ini file)
“Stop Capture” stops the capture of the current well, but not of the overall capture. That is, if
We have selected to scan wells 1,2 and 3, and we are processing the first one, it will stop
capture but will continue with the next one on the list
- Choosing a selection results in a full page refresh.