Nikon Biostation CT Cell Culture Observation System

With conventional cell monitoring procedures, a culture vessel has to be taken out of the incubator for microscope observation, where cells are subject to stressful environmental changes and mechanical disturbance. Researchers then have to spend additional time repositioning the vessel to find previous observation points. Nikon's BioStation CT eliminates these problems by combining culture and imaging environments to enable accurate monitoring of individual cells and colonies while maintaining stable environmental conditions.  The BioStation CT is an ideal monitoring solution for cell types that require minimal handling and stable culture conditions such as stem cells.

Features:

Atuomatic Image Capture: The autofocus mechanism allows the capture of in-focus images. Z-stack imaging in phase contrast observation, multi-sample imaging and multi-point imaging are possible with multiple magnifications.
Environmental Management: Powerful functionality for stable environmental control of CO₂, temperature, and humidity, reducing stress on cells; thereby enhancing viability.
Micro View: A high-sensitivity, cooled CMOS camera easily captures low fluorescence isgnals and phase contrast images.
Macro View: Low magnification, brightfield images of the whole culture vessel can be used to document handwritten information on the vessel, medium colour and presence of contamination in the culture
Remote Access: Configruation of the imag acquisition settings, scheduling a time-lapse experiment, and accessing acquired images are all possible via a network
Automatic vessel transportation: Biostation CT incorporates a transport unit that provides stable transfer of the vessel from the storage rack to the observation aread and back, all within the heated and humidified incubator
Operation and Data Acquisition: Places great importance on cell traceability for each experiment.
Optional Modules: Fluorescence, Mixed Gas Environments and Image Analysis Software.
CT-AS Software Overview: Innovative, next generation live-cell image analysis program that enables scientists to automatically detect, segment, measure, classify, analyse and discover cellular and subcellular phenotypes in their live-cell imaging experiments; in both brightfield (phase) and three-channel fluorescence

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