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Andor Technology
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South Windsor,CT
United States
Press Releases
| Live cell imaging software iQ 1.9
Andor Technology plc (Andor), a world leader in scientific imaging and spectroscopy solutions announce the latest release of its flagship live cell imaging software iQ 1.9. The upgrade will allow greater flexibility and power for all its users.
iQ 1.9 builds considerably on the previous version (1.8.1), released in March 2008, and is intended to be the last release before the much anticipated iQ 2.0.
Notable updates include enhanced FRAPPA software support enabling multi-region bleaching both live and within a protocol. The FRAPPA Calibration Wizard has also been upgraded to store multiple calibration files for different hardware configurations. Multi-field acquisition functionality has been extended by enabling autofocus (Olympus ZDC and Nikon PFS) control at all fields. While support for the CoolLED PrecisExcite LED illuminator enables Andor iQ users to gain access to the many benefits of this technology.
On the processing and analysis front, a new filter plug-in provides a range of convolution filters and morphological operators.
Dr. Mark Browne, Market Development Manager within Andor, commented "We have invested much time and effort into our final release of iQ 1.x generation. This update offers substantial benefits over the previous versions and upholds iQ's position as a leader in live cell imaging software".
For more information, please visit:
www.andor.com/software/iq/ |
| Drivers for Luca R and Luca S imaging EMCCD cameras
Andor Technology plc (Andor), a world leader in scientific imaging and spectroscopy solutions, announces the availability of optimized drivers for Luca R and Luca S imaging EMCCD cameras within the Meta imaging series of acquisition and analysis software, specifically the Metamorph, Metafluo and Metavue software packages. Andor LucaEM cameras are supported in the Meta series version 7.5.4 and up.
Andor’s LucaEM family of single photon sensitive imaging cameras offer a unique price/performance EMCCD solution for demanding live cell imaging applications, in a compact, USB 2.0 platform. The QE response of the high-resolution Luca R model is particularly optimal for the range of increasingly popular red-emitting fluorophores.
Dr Colin Coates, Imaging Market Development Manager within Andor Technology, said ‘Andor fully encourage the availability of drivers for the LucaEM cameras within the Meta series, offering greater flexibility to the live cell imaging community to benefit from a scientific camera innovation which has significantly raised the bar in terms of performance that you can expect within the ‘workhorse’ price category.’
For more information, please visit www.andor.com/scientific_cameras/luca/ |
| Pre-Recorded Webminar on BioCompare.com
Andor Technology plc (Andor), a world leader in scientific imaging and spectroscopy solutions, offers a pre-recorded Webinar on BioCompare.com, to demonstrate some of the key performance features and application benefits of Andor’s pioneering Electron-Multiplying Charge-Coupled Device (EMCCD) technology.
Since its introduction by Andor in 2000, EMCCD scientific camera technology has risen to become the gold-standard in ultrasensitive detection and has dramatically enhanced detection capabilities in low light dynamic microscopy applications such as 4/5D live cell imaging, ion signalling, cell motility and single molecule detection.
Hosted by Andor’s Market Development Manager, Dr. Colin Coates, the presentation outlines some of the innovations that have contributed to Andor’s status as the leading manufacturer of EMCCD cameras and incorporates an overview of Andor’s two distinct Low Light Imaging EMCCD camera families the iXonEM+ and the LucaEM.
To access the Webinar, please visit
http://www.cnpg.com/Video/flatFiles/703/ |
| Andor announces the release of Komet® 6.0
Andor Technology plc (Andor), a world leader in scientific imaging and spectroscopy solutions, announces the release of Komet® 6.0, the leading software for imaging and analysis of comet assay specimens. The comet assay reveals DNA damage at the single cell level with extreme sensitivity.
Andor’s Komet® software has been the recognized leader in this field for more than 15 years and has consistently provided innovation through enhanced usability, analysis and data management. Andor’s Database Viewer, included with Komet as a stand alone review tool, provides specimen decoding, visualization and data preparation for subsequent statistical analyses.
Andor’s CCD and EMCCD cameras are well-suited to imaging fluorescent comet samples and for the first time Komet® systems will be bundled with these cameras to guarantee performance and offer outstanding value. Cameras can be selected from Andor’s Luca EMCCD range, such as Luca-S, a VGA format camera with 10 um pixels, and Luca R, a 1kx1k camera with 8 um pixels. Both cameras are interfaced via USB 2.0. The bundle is completed with a high performance Windows® workstation, which is fully integrated and QC-tested before shipping. Bundles guarantee compatibility and provide performance and the high quality data necessary for research and safety testing.
Dr. Mark Browne, Market Development Manager within Andor, said “The announcement of our Komet® and camera bundled systems is timely as the international community gears up to use the comet assay more widely in safety testing of pharmaceuticals. Earlier in 2008 the ICH Steering Committee released to regulatory authorities a draft revision of the S2(R1) document “Guidance on the Genotoxicity Testing and Data Interpretation for Pharmaceuticals Intended for Human Use. Dr. Browne added further “This revision includes the comet assay as a follow-up test for assessing results from in vitro or in vivo assays. Our products are intended to provide researchers around the world a platform to produce high quality data from the comet assay.”
For more information, please visit www.andor.com/software/komet. |
| Andor announces that it has signed a global supply agreement with CoolLED Ltd
Andor Technology plc (Andor), a world leader in scientific imaging and spectroscopy solutions, announceds that it has signed a global supply agreement with CoolLED Ltd. to integrate the company’s PrecisExcite® LED light source for fluorescence microscopy in its own range of microscopy systems. This will allow scientists to perform their research with an efficient, stable and bright light setting.
LEDs have many advantages over conventional light sources. They produce an immediate and consistent light source over a narrow bandwidth, the brightness can be easily controlled, no warm up period is required, they are significantly more efficient, need no maintenance and use no consumables. In addition, they avoid the health and environmental hazards associated with mercury lamps and, as they operate from a low voltage supply, are inherently safe.
Cost of ownership is very low compared with mercury lamps. The PrecisExcite® excitation system has a 'light-on' lifetime of over 10,000 hours whereas mercury lamps have a comparatively short life. In addition, the microscope may have to be recalibrated after the bulb has been changed so adding to the operating cost.
Dr. Mark Browne, Market Development Manager within Andor, said “The addition of PrecisExcite® from CoolLED to our range of microscopy systems complements our offering of cameras and software for microscopes so that scientists can now minimise specimen exposure, reduce cost of ownership and toxic waste from Hg lamps and never worry about aligning a lamp again.”
For more information, please visit
http://www.andor.com/microscopy_systems/peripherals/coolLED/ |
| Andor announces the availability of drivers within μManager
Andor Technology plc (Andor), a world leader in scientific imaging and spectroscopy solutions announces the availability of drivers within μManager for their complete range of iXonEM+ and LucaEM EMCCD cameras. Within this environment, these drivers offer iCam-optimized acquisition to enable researchers to enhance the performance of microscopy experiments.
μManager is an increasingly accepted open source software platform for imaging and control of automated microscopes. Constructed as a downloadable plug-in for ImageJ, a very popular image processing package, μManager provides a comprehensive imaging solution, enabling both hardware control and data analysis in one. Its Java environment provides a route to customization with various scriptable macros.
Andor's iCam technology is a combined firmware and software innovation, a highly efficient and performance-optimized solution which is integrated across all Andor EMCCD imaging cameras, and offering next-generation EMCCD speed performance during tightly synchronized and complex multi-dimensional microscopy experiments.
Dr Colin Coates, Market Development Manager within Andor Technology, said "Andor have actively supported the development of μManager drivers that benefit from iCam technology. This significant driver advancement means that multi-channel microscopy setup can now be optimized for both ultra-sensitive and rapid EMCCD acquisition performance within this rich software environment."
For more information, please visit www.andor.com/software/micromanager/ |
| Andor cameras help develop ‘Super-Resolution’ Microscopy
Andor Technology plc (Andor), a world leader in scientific imaging and spectroscopy solutions, today reported that their performance leading iXon+ EMCCD cameras have been used in the development of a new structured illumination microscopy approach that delivers ‘sub-diffraction’ resolution at high speed.
The instrument has been developed by a team from the University of San Francisco, led by Prof. John Sedat, Assist. Prof. Mats Gustafsson, and Dr. David Agard, and is based on the employment of diffracted laser light to create a pattern of multiple interfering illumination beams. Capture of images over several orientation of the beams incident on the sample, followed by intensive computational treatment, results in a final image with spatial resolution that is at least twice as fine as the 200 - 300nm best case resolution of classical microscopy.
Electron microscopy cannot be performed on living cells, and furthermore, is not compatible with use of fluorescent tags for greater specificity. The structured illumination set-up from UCSF has been successfully demonstrated on challenging sub-nuclear structural investigations (this work was published in the June 6, 2008 issue of Science).
Prof Sedat said, "Using a parallel array of Andor’s iXon+ 897 EMCCD cameras as detectors, we have been able to develop this instrument with enhanced sensitivity and speed, critical to realize the implementation of the technique for high resolution imaging of challenging live specimens within a reasonable measurement period".
Dr. Colin Coates, Market Development Manager within Andor, concluded, “This is a highly significant advance since much sub-cellular detail is hidden by the classical diffraction limit of light microscopy. We are very pleased that our high performance cameras have helped Prof. Sedat to successfully develop a new structured illumination approach for high resolution microscopy”.
For more information, please visit www.andor.com/scientific_cameras/ixon/ |
| Andor LucaEM EMCCD cameras supported in Metamorph software
Andor Technology plc (Andor), a world leader in scientific imaging and spectroscopy solutions, today announced the availability of optimized drivers for Luca R and Luca S imaging EMCCD cameras within the Meta imaging series of acquisition and analysis software, specifically the Metamorph, Metafluo and Metavue software packages. Andor LucaEM cameras are supported in the Meta series version 7.5.4 and up.
Andor’s LucaEM family of single photon sensitive imaging cameras offer a unique price/performance EMCCD solution for demanding live cell imaging applications, in a compact, USB 2.0 platform. The QE response of the high-resolution Luca R model is particularly optimal for the range of increasingly popular red-emitting fluorophores.
Dr Colin Coates, Imaging Market Development Manager within Andor Technology, said ‘Andor fully encourage the availability of drivers for the LucaEM cameras within the Meta series, offering greater flexibility to the live cell imaging community to benefit from a scientific camera innovation which has significantly raised the bar in terms of performance that you can expect within the ‘workhorse’ price category.’ |
| Andor Adds to Range with New USB X-Ray Capability
Andor Technology plc (Andor), a world leader in scientific imaging and spectroscopy solutions, today announced the launch of their new iKon-M X-ray camera. This extension to the established ‘iKon’ family of low light imaging cameras is designed to deliver high-performance solutions to direct detection X-ray needs, and is available in two variants: DO and DY. The DO variant interfaces easily with vacuum chambers, whereas the DY variant is a ‘stand-alone’ camera with a beryllium input window.
The new camera offers very low read noise floor, high QE across the X-ray, XUV and EUV energy ranges, and boasts negligible dark current with thermoelectric cooling to as low as -90ºC, ideal for maximizing signal to noise for low photon flux applications. Readout speeds of up to 2.5 MHz enable faster frame rate imaging of dynamic processes.
Dr Colin Coates, Market Development Manager within Andor Technology, said "We are delighted to announce the launch of this latest addition to our X-ray family of cameras. The iKon-M X-ray offers unparalleled thermoelectric cooling and ultra low noise readout, making it ideal for a range of applications including Soft X-ray imaging, Lithography, X-ray microscopy, Beam profilometry, and Plasma diagnostics”.
For more information, please visit
http://www.andor.com/scientific_cameras/x-ray/ |
| Public Health Benefits of Spectroscopy Solutions from Andor
Today Andor Technology plc (Andor), a world leader in scientific imaging and spectroscopy solutions, announced that its high performance spectroscopes and cameras have contributed to innovative advancements in science over the past year.
Since last summer, a team of research scientists has been able to demonstrate the ability to detect and identify the chemical composition of calcified material within a previously thought impossible depth of 16 mm thick animal tissue, using an Andor camera transmission and Raman spectroscopy. This technique may ultimately be used in conjunction with the existing mammography or ultrasound techniques to enhance the diagnostic potential of human cancer.
Another team of researchers devised a non-invasive method of analysis to detect counterfeit medication, without having to open the packaging that could lead to the protection of unsuspecting populations. Then another group of scientists was able to validate a novel methodology using anti-bodies spectral response to help medical professionals provide a diagnosis for auto-immune diseases, such as sclerosis conditions.
Antoine Varagnat, Market Development Manager within Andor Technology, said ‘This impressive list of achievements by the scientific community is an endorsement to the efforts we have put into developing a range of spectroscopy solutions that match the needs of scientists, and that the functionalities we have introduced are enabling them to push the boundaries of their work into exciting areas of research’.
For more information, please visit www.andor.com/spectroscopy. |
| Public Health Benefits of Spectroscopy Solutions from Andor
Today Andor Technology plc (Andor), a world leader in scientific imaging and spectroscopy solutions, announced that its high performance spectroscopes and cameras have contributed to innovative advancements in science over the past year.
Since last summer, a team of research scientists has been able to demonstrate the ability to detect and identify the chemical composition of calcified material within a previously thought impossible depth of 16 mm thick animal tissue, using an Andor camera transmission and Raman spectroscopy. This technique may ultimately be used in conjunction with the existing mammography or ultrasound techniques to enhance the diagnostic potential of human cancer.
Another team of researchers devised a non-invasive method of analysis to detect counterfeit medication, without having to open the packaging that could lead to the protection of unsuspecting populations. Then another group of scientists was able to validate a novel methodology using anti-bodies spectral response to help medical professionals provide a diagnosis for auto-immune diseases, such as sclerosis conditions.
Antoine Varagnat, Market Development Manager within Andor Technology, said ‘This impressive list of achievements by the scientific community is an endorsement to the efforts we have put into developing a range of spectroscopy solutions that match the needs of scientists, and that the functionalities we have introduced are enabling them to push the boundaries of their work into exciting areas of research’.
For more information, please visit www.andor.com/spectroscopy. |
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