Can be used with an RGB camera to display and acquire a separate red, blue, and green image in sequence, allowing users to produce a perfectly balanced colour image
Syncroscopy, a supplier of digital imaging solutions for microscopy applications, has introduced the new AcQuis version 2.0 image documentation and archiving system.
This is designed to make capturing images of samples stained with coloured or fluorescent dyes both quicker and more accurate.
AcQuis 2.0 can be used with an RGB camera such as Syncroscopy's SyncroCool to display and acquire a separate red, blue, and green image in sequence using the new AcQuis multiband technique.
This unique feature allows users to set the exposure and other conditions for each CCD channel and produce a perfectly balanced image from their microscopes in the shortest possible time.
Since many fluorescent dyes fade rapidly, the speed of the software's image capture will be a major benefit to those working with samples stained in this way.
AcQuis achieves this by permitting single channels such as the red image to float 'live' over the other image channels, which remain frozen.
This allows users to make a perfect judgement about the intensity of each colour.
Any misalignment of colours can also be instantly corrected using the AcQuis multiband technique.
Syncroscopy has designed AcQuis Version 2.0 with maximum flexibility in mind.
For microscopists that need to see a quick overview of their sample the software can acquire all of the images from an RGB camera simultaneously to produce one multi-coloured image.
In addition, for those without RGB cameras, the software can even be used with a monochrome camera to create images in pseudo-colour.
Bob Town, Syncroscopy's general sales manager, commented: "We are very proud to introduce this new version of AcQuis.
It is completely unique because no other capture system on the market today will allow microscopists to build an image by optimising the signal from different RGB channels.
This exciting feature will be most beneficial to life scientists that are staining slides or sections with different fluorescent dyes and have a critical need to visualise all the colours of their sample with pinpoint accuracy."
