Cool camera for detailed life science imaging

The new pco.4000 CCD camera has excellent qualities for life science applications. The resolution of 4032x2688pixel can replace a lot of images at high magnification from a microscope by one image at lower magnification and therefore extending the lifetime of the bio markers. Because of its cooled 14bit performance it is absolutely suited for low light applications. The new approach with the image memory integrated into the camera (up to 4GB) together with its extremely fast data transfer rate of 160MB/s allows new ways of operation like for example a ring buffer mode with post trigger opportunity. A post trigger is useful if the moment of a dynamic experiment can be seen but is not known precisely in advance. If now the camera operates in ring buffer mode, when the moment arrives the acquisition can be stopped and the past images remain in the memory, therefore the "history" is not lost. Like all systems of the new pco.camera series, it has multiple speed, allowing for either low noise (12 e- @ 10MHz) or high frame rate (3.48 fps @ 20MHz) operation. The camera is connected to a PC via standard interfaces (IEEE1394, camera link, USB2.0, gigabit ethernet).