Berthold NightShade In Vivo Plant Imaging System
Standardized conditions. Reliable results. The NightShade LB 985 In Vivo Plant Imaging System is a modular, easy to use optical imaging system dedicated to in vivo analysis of plants. The instrument is equipped with a light-tight cabinet and a deeply cooled CCD camera. This enables sensitive luminescence and fluorescence monitoring in tissues, seedlings and whole plants. The camera can be attached either to the top or to the side of the cabinet enabling imaging from above and from the side. The key environmental conditions like temperature or light can be simulated to provide a controlled growth environment.
The NightShade uses an ultra-sensitive back-illuminated (backlit) CCD camera with high quantum efficiency over the entire visible to near-infrared spectrum. Efficient cooling to a delta of -100°C ensures the lowest background and highest sensitivity for long exposure times. The camera can be mounted either on top of the instrument to take images from above or laterally for side view images enabling the seedlings to maintain upright in their natural vertical orientation.
The NightShade helps creating a standardized environment for your experiment.
The NightShade provides a light-tight imaging chamber that you can set up according to your experimental needs:
The user-friendly IndiGO™ software controls the instrument and makes image processing easy. It provides the following innovative features:
Daylight simulation: a set of 2 LED panels, 4 colors each can be mounted at different heights inside the imaging chamber for daylight simulation. With IndiGO™ software you can control intensity and duration of each color individually to provide homogeneous illumination up to 1,800 μE or 15,000 Lux.
Camera type |
Back-lit midband-coated full frame chip, 1024 x 1024 pixel, slow scan mode |
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Pixel size | 13 x 13 µm | |
Spectral range | 350-1050 nm | |
Quantum efficiency | 90% at 620 nm | |
Pixel binning | Variable to increase sensitivity, up to 16x16 | |
Exposure times | From ms to hours | |
CCD cooling | Thermoelectrical air cooling down to -70° C |
Lens
Size |
25 mm, f 0.95 C-mount for most efficient light collection |
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Field of view |
Standard lens: 270 x 270 mm XT version: 320 x 320 mm Macro lens: 130 x 130 mm |
Lamp type | 75 W halogen lamp |
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Spectral range | 340-750 nm |
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