Syncroscopy, the world leader in unique digital imaging solutions for microscopy, has introduced  a version of its highly acclaimed AutoMontage software for depth of field reconstruction as a Montage Pad App for its new Scopepad 500, a touch screen microscope tablet with integrated camera.

This new imaging suite will provide an inexpensive, yet rapid method of generating perfectly in-focus images of samples.

The new Scopepad 500 features a 9 inch tablet integrated to a high-resolution 5 megapixel camera and software for image capture, annotation, measurements and image enhancement. The Scopepad 500 with its standard C-mount is easily fitted to any microscope with a camera port, allowing microscopists to have a rapid touch screen method for producing accurate, full-colour images of their samples. These images can be saved and measurement results can be directly exported to Excel.

For microscopists who need perfectly focused images of 3D samples, a new Montage Pad App (an App version of AutoMontage, Syncroscopy’s widely acclaimed depth of focus software) is available for use exclusively with the Scopepad 500. The Montage Pad App captures an image series of the sample via the Scopepad 500 and then analyses and rapidly reconstructs the data into one fully focused image, thus saving users time manually overlaying images on their computer.

Based on the highly successful Auto-Montage software, widely used in many prestigious 3D entomology imaging projects, the Montage Pad App brings the power of Auto-Montage to the Scopepad 500, inexpensively converting an ordinary microscope into a highly advanced, imaging workstation.

Laura Sullivan of Syncroscopy explained: “When viewing samples such as insects or fossils, microscopists often cannot obtain a fully focused image because of the microscope’s limited depth of field. Electron microscopy can overcome this issue but is very expensive and time consuming so is not accessible to all researchers.”

Laura continued: “Our imaging experts have realised that microscopists would like a quick, affordable alternative, which is why Syncroscopy is introducing our Scopepad 500 and Montage Pad App. This unique imaging suite will offer a simple but effective method of turning microscopes with camera ports into image reconstruction powerhouses for producing high-resolution, in-focus images of samples. Using a Scopepad 500 with the Montage Pad App is the ideal solution for scientists needing to speed up throughput of any 3D sample intensive, microscopy project.”

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