Scope-Pro Specifications

Image Processing Solutions provides fully integrated image analysis solutions that are fast, accurate and reliable. Our premier vendor is Media Cybernetics. Their products provide sophisticated, yet easy-to-use solutions for the control and automation of image acquisition devices and image analysis. Designed for researchers, scientists, lab technicians, engineers, and quality assurance and research and development specialists, these products give you easier, faster, and more accurate ways to visualize, collect, and analyze your images.

Image Feature Map for locating features of interest

Automatically control complex microscopy equipment in a simple and repeatable manner. Scope-Pro® is designed for Image-Pro Plus users who want to control and program the movement of their automated microscope and/or stage. The add-on module allows you to control complex microscopy equipment in a simple, repeatable manner for reproducible results. Unlike manual methods or other tedious software programs, Scope-Pro reduces the need to put your eye to the ocular during image acquisition and virtually eliminates the need to manually adjust microscope controls.

Repetitive routines can be automated for better quality control and increased efficiency. The software is easy to use and consistently provides reliable and accurate measurements.

Point and click simplicity saves you time. Standard point and click functions of the stage control include single step movement in any x, y, or z direction. Scope-Pro also controls your motorized filter wheels, shutters, filter sliders and lamp settings. Individual configurations of all your automated equipment can be saved and returned to with a simple selection of the configuration name. When a configuration is selected, all of the automated components will be moved to the desired positions. Manual components are supported, too, and a reminder message box appears whenever a manual component needs to be adjusted for a particular configuration.

Configuration can be done through a tab dialog, allowing user specification of component types and names. Capture is also integrated into Scope-Pro, allowing a single command or button press in Scope-Pro to capture an image with a desired microscope setup. Optionally, the shutter can be controlled in conjunction with capture, which can help minimize bleaching for fluorescent samples.

Scope-Pro includes pre-defined multiwell plate patterns for easy set-up.

Easily automate your repetitive functions.

Scope-Pro is supported by Image-Pro 's internal programming language, AutoPro. Repetitive functions and movements can be automated by recording them in a Auto-Pro macro or Visual Basic program. By integrating control of the stage into a macro program, you can incorporate any of Image-Pro 's 200+ analysis and processing routines into a fully automated image capture, analysis, and data collection process.

System Requirements

The Scope-Pro module is 32-bit software that can be installed at any time by Image-Pro Plus 4.0 users with Windows 95/NT 4.0 and supported equipment. Scope-Pro requires Image-Pro Plus v4.0 for Windows 95/98/NT 4.0 and a Pentium 120 or better CPU with at least 32mb of RAM.

Scope-Pro Supports the Following Equipment

	Automated Microscopes
	Zeiss AxioPlan 2 microscope
	Olympus Provis AX-70/80
	Leica DMRXA
	Nikon E1000
	Automated Stages, Filter Wheels, and Shutters
	Ludl BioPoint controller and stages
	Ludl MAC 2000 controller for stages, filter wheels, and shutters
	Prior H128 series controller and stages
	Prior Optiscan controller and stages
	Märzhäuser MultiControl 2000 controller and stages
	Märzhäuser L-Step controller and stages
	Sutter Lambda 10-2 and 10-C filter wheels and shutters
	Vincent Associates shutters
	Nikon Remote Focus Motor attachment Please note that certain software functionality is dependent upon hardware configuration. Check with Image Processing Solutions for more details.

Scope-Pro Features Include

	Software control of microscope hardware, including several brands of filter wheels, shutters, stages, and automated microscopes
	Repeatable settings for all optical parameters associated with an image capture
	Capture Z-stacks of images as a stack or sequence
	Stage scanning and auto-focus algorithms for both brightfield and fluorescence microscopy automate the generation of sharp Z-Stack composite images
	Options for creating composite Z-stack images with an extended depth of field are also included
	Measurement of X, Y and/or Z distances
	Save X, Y, Z, and T information with image
	Tiled image capture allows you to assemble X by Y frames into a single, high-resolution image from a scanned specimen
	New Feature Map tool allows you to capture high-resolution images as a feature map
	Support for multiwell plates and multiple microscope slide holders
	Combine wells in a multiwell plate into experimental groups
	Control the shutter to minimize light exposure and reduce photobleaching
	Easy and automated fluorescence image acquisition
	Prompt for manual light path items that are not motorized
	Automate repetitive functions and movements by recording them in an Auto-Pro* macro or Visual Basic program
	Incorporate any of Image-Pro's 200+ analysis and processing routines *Image-Pro Express does not support Auto-Pro macros or macro recording.