PRODUCTS: Montage Explorer

Summary

Montage Explorer is the ultimate solution to the microscopist’s eternal problem of small viewable area and limited depth of focus. Building on the capabilities of Auto-Montage, SYNCROSCOPY has developed and patented a digital imaging system which allows microscope users to select a high magnification and move around large specimens, building up a high magnification composite image of the specimen under investigation – in real time.

In manual mode the user is in complete control, using the normal manual microscope controls to move around the specimen. At the same time Montage Explorer analyzes, at extremely high speed, the incoming image data to automatically calculate the distance and direction moved. This it does using patented correlation algorithms creating a remarkable, ever extending and fully detailed, stitched image as you explore your sample.

Furthermore, if your specimen contains large variations in height, by moving the specimen through the entire range of focus, Montage Explorer will extract all the in-focus elements and combine them into a fully focused composite image.

If you wish to use a motorized XY stage and motorized focus with Montage Explorer, this too is made simple with the use of a unique Auto-Calibration function. Montage Explorer automatically uses its correlation algorithms at start-up to measure the precise alignment between camera and sample, to ensure perfect ‘stitching’ together of images.

This is a very significant advantage over other ‘mechanical’ stitching programs that depend on perfect rotational alignment of camera & stage and perfect positioning of adjacent fields of view.

For each magnification, the number of steps per pixel is automatically calculated in a few seconds. This means there is effectively no manual set-up procedure required, saving time as well as increasing accuracy.

	Huge resolution images generated with optimum optical magnification
	Seamless image stitching for large samples under high magnification
	Ideal for use in a vast range of applications, particularly well suited to samples with a large depth of focus and irregular structures with high detail
	Works with any optical microscope – no special modification required
	Images can be stored in a database, analyzed, published or output as photo-quality prints at sizes up to A2
	Applications include entomology, industrial quality control and failure testing, materials and metallurgy inspection, semiconductor and microelectronics manufacture, and biological and medical studies in neurology, histology and cytology
	Syncroscan module for ultra-high speed image stitching and motorized XYZ control