Patent ID: 6615141
Filing Date: 2003-09-02
Classification: C12M,G06K,G06T,G16B,Y10S

Abstract:
A system for automatically capturing images of cells or cell structures from multiple cell holders, each comprising a plurality of sites in a spatial orientation, each of the sites being capable of holding a plurality of cells to be imaged, the system comprising:an image capturing device coupled to the cell holder, the image capturing device being adapted to capture a plurality of images from at least one of the plurality of sites, a site at a time; an illumination apparatus comprising a liquid light guide coupled to the cell holder for highlighting at least a one of the plurality of cells in a relatively even spatial manner for image capturing purposes; a robot arm for automatically collecting multiple of said cell holders to facilitate capture of the images of the cells or cell structures from said multiple cell holders; a computing device connected to a database storage device and the image capturing device, the database storage device storing the images and enabling the generation of a montage of image; and software that analyzes the images and characterizing features of the cells or cell structures in the images.