Automated Cell Imaging System

We chose our inverted microscope platform for high content imaging because it was the most flexible: the largest selection of objective lenses, detectors, modalities and applications available to apply to high content acquisition and analysis.

With confocal modalities, 3-dimensional high content at the highest resolution can be acquired. And with space for 44 well plates, multiple users can take advantage of time-resolved live imaging applications.

Key Features

Environmental stability is maintained by a 44-plate capacity incubator (two stackers each housing up to 22 plates) and a full imaging enclosure.

With a main door for plate loading, and a side door for direct robotic transfer to the microscope stage, temperature and humidity can be quickly recovered and constantly maintained.

An internal robot picks plates and loads them through a side door to a second robot which transfers plates directly to the microscope stage, all inside an incubated environmental chamber.

Automated imaging on a schedule

The NIS-Elements Scheduler allows users to maintain their individual plates and schedule open times on the imaging system to run them.

Always running, the scheduler shows an overview of all plates and their owners.

The Scheduler automatically loads plates at imaging time and executes the experiment defined by the user. When complete, the plate is returned to the incubator.