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Scope-Pro is designed for Image-Pro Plus and Image-Pro Discovery users who want to control and program the movement of their automated microscope and/or stage.

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 by simply selecting the configuration name. Once a configuration is selected, all of the components automatically move 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.

Hardware configuration is done through an easy-to-use tab dialog, allowing user specification of component types and names. Image acquisition is also integrated into Scope-Pro, use a single command or press a button to capture an image with a desired microscope setting.

Image Feature Map for locating features of interest.	Scope-Pro includes pre-defined multiwell plate patterns for easy set-up. Click on image for more detail.

Features

• 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
• Incorporate any of Image-Pro's 200+ analysis and processing routines
  

Scope-Pro supports the following equipment:

Automated Microscopes

• Olympus AX Series, BX2 Series, IX2 Series
• Leica DM RXA, DM IRBE, DM RXA2, DM RA2, DM LA2, DM IRE2
• Nikon E1000, TE2000
• Zeiss AxioPlan 2 microscope

Automated Stages, Filter Wheels & Shutters

• Ludl BioPoint controller and stages
• Ludl MAC 2000/5000 controller for stages, filter wheels, and shutters
• Prior H128/129 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