CellVoyager CQ1 Benchtop High-Content Analysis System

Principles of the Microlens-enhanced Nipkow Disk Scanning Technology
A Nipkow spinning disk containing about 20,000 pinholes and a subsidiary spinning disk containing the same number of microlenses to focus excitation laser light into each corresponding pinhole are mechanically fixed on a motor, and very rapidly rotated. As a result, a high-speed raster scan of the excitation lights on the specimen can be achieved. The pinhole and microlenses are arranged on each disk in our proprietary design to optimize the raster scan. Multi-beam scanning not only increases scanning speed but also results in significantly lower photobleaching and phototoxicity because multi-beam excitation needs only a low level of laser power on the specimen to fully excite fluorescence.

Brief Introduction
With its compact footprint and lightweight, benchtop design, there is no need for a darkroom or specialized setup for the CellVoyager CQ1. The unit provides rich feature extractions, facilitating sophisticated cellular image analysis, and while the Nipkow Spinning Disk Confocal Technology allows high speed scanning, it reduces phototoxicity and photobleaching.
Product Characteristics
Enables measurement of spheroids, colonies, and tissue sections
No need to remove cells from the culture dish, in contrast to traditional flow cytometry
Nipkow spinning disk confocal technology allows high-speed yet gentle 3D image acquisition
Rich feature extraction to facilitate sophisticated cellular image analysis
Wide field of view and tiling capability enables easy imaging of large specimen

Enables analysis of time-lapse and live-cell
High precision stage incubator and low phototoxicity of our confocal makes the analysis of time-lapse and live-cell are possible.
Max. 20fps option for fast time-lapse.

High-quality image and similar operability to a traditional flow cytometer
Integration with CellPathfiner software can provide powerful analysis displayed in real-time with image acquisition.
Usable high-quality image as confocal microscope image.
Interactive graphs make it easy to trace back the data points.

Open platform
Connectable with external systems via handling robot.
Expandable to the integrated system as image acquisition and quantification instrument.
FCS/CSV/ICE data format readable by third-party data analysis software.
A variety of cell culture and sample dishes are applicable.

Compact footprint, lightweight bench-top device; no need for a darkroom.

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