Cell-IQ combines long term cell incubation conditions with phase contrast and fluorescence imaging utilising Machine Vision Technology to automatically identify, analyse and quantify cell morphological features.  While many of these techniques are used independantly already in cell biology, Cell-IQ is the first system that has combined cell visualisation with Machine Vision Technology for quantitation.

Cell-IQ comprises of three main components:

• The cell growth environmental chamber, where microplates or culture flasks can be maintained under optimal growth conditions of gas, humidity and temperature  for days or even months.
• The optics system comprising of a microscope, light source and camera for recording time lapse digital images utilising LED illumination which is gentle on the cells and does not cause photobleaching. The Imagen software is very user friendly for rapid and simple set up of experiments
• The Cell-IQ Analyzer software utilising machine vision technology to automatically identify and quantify cell types/phases. Cell-IQ not only produces quality cell images, it reports true quantitative data of cell types and cell numbers in tables and graphs.
• Cells are maintained in the proper environment of temperature, humidity and gas that makes long term observation possible. Microplates, slides or other culture vessels can be placed in the Cell-IQ for sequential analysis. The software enables the user to select the location and area to be imaged within each well, specify how long to measure and how often to cycle through the plate or entire plates.  This is accomplished automatically by using accurate plate positioning and automatic "all-in-one" focusing that compensates for any variation in the plate structure.

Whatever your cell biology needs, Cell-IQ will become an invaluable member of your team..

While there are significant advantages to label-free analysis, the use of labels or dyes yeilds additional information.  For this reason, Cell-IQ also has an option for measuring fluorescence output.  Overlaying the fluorescence and phase contrast images yeilds even greater information of living cells.

As research needs develop CelLite can easily be added to your system in the field.  CelLite offers you the opportunity to visualise cells with phase contrast and three different fluorescent colours in combination overlaying one, two or all three fluorescent images on the phase contrast as required.

CelLite Multi-Label Fluorescence Module

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Cell-IQ 2 is a fully integrated continuous live cell imaging and analysis platform ideal for use with cell lines. primary cells, co-cultures and mono-layer tissue models.  It is a research tool with a difference, Cell-IQ can be trained to see what you see and quantifies results automatically.

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