Toshiba Imaging Systems Division, a global leader in high
definition (HD) camera technology for life sciences, microscopy, defense,
industrial, and broadcast applications, announces a customized software
interface for Toshiba’s IK-TF7 3-chip color cameras that enhances fluorescence
imaging in living retinal tissue. The custom release of Streampix 5 software by
Norpix, Inc. for Phoenix Research Laboratories, Inc. features a built-in,
long-integration button with a frame-time-selection window that enhances live
animal retinal imaging studies. The recently designed software has been
successfully used with Toshiba’s 3CCD cameras by Phoenix Research to capture
imagery from the retinas of mice and rats, performing highly sensitive, in-vivo
microscopy eye research.
“After a year in development, Norpix’s Streampix 5 software
package was a welcome and instant success in our labs,” notes Greg Sprehn of
Phoenix Research Laboratories. “Using Toshiba Imaging’s IK-TF7 3-chip cameras
with long integration time and low dark noise, the new software (with a corresponding
built-in long integration button) allows us to collect photons for several
seconds or longer while imaging even fainter fluorescence in living retinal
tissue. This exciting new capability will advance retinal regeneration studies
that lead to restoring vision in humans, and finding ways to prevent
blindness.”
Streampix 5 makes it possible to view, control and acquire imagery
from single or multiple cameras simultaneously, all in the same user interface.
A complete management console for the cameras simplifies the setup, control and
acquisition from any number of cameras. In this application, the new commercial
software interface combines with Phoenix Research Lab’s Micron III, an advanced
retinal imaging system that integrates Toshiba’s IK-TF7 3-chip cameras with
synchro-scan mode. The new, highly sensitive imaging system for biology will
permit more precision in cell location and promote safer experiments in the
lab.