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Images Generated by Auto-Montage Shown at Prestigious Art Exhibition
Syncroscopy is pleased to announce Auto-Montage, its powerful imaging system has produced images of such outstanding quality that they have been shown as works of art.
The image shown was produced by Auto-Montage of a sixteen and a half-day embryo of a “knockout mouse”, which was cleaned of soft tissues and stained to separately reveal cartilage (blue) and mineralised bone (red). (Image kindly provided by Professor Tim Bromage, AMICA, Hunter College, CUNY, and Nancy Yeh, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre, both of New York, USA).
Auto-Montage was used to capture and analyse many partially focused digital images of three-dimensional hard tissues such as bones and teeth. Many of the resulting infinite depth of focus images were considered so extraordinary they were featured in an art exhibition entitled, ‘The Microscope and The Skeleton: A Digital Photomicrography of Hard Tissues’ held at the acclaimed, Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery in New York.
Professor Timothy Bromage, Professor of Anthropology at the Analytical Microscopy and Imaging Centre in Anthropology (AMICA) and curator of this show stated: “Using Auto-Montage we are now able to create stunning visual images of the microscopic world of hard tissues in a way that we could not possibly do using film-based media. This software not only demonstrates the important relationship between science and new trends in graphic imaging but also represents a major advance in solving strategic research problems in the anthropological and biomedical sciences.”
Martin Smith, Syncroscopy’s Divisional Sales Manager added: ”Since AMICA is home to one of the US’s premier imaging laboratory within the social sciences we are honoured to see Auto-Montage being so successfully utilised in their research. To have images generated by Auto-Montage that are so exceptional as to be worthy of being exhibited is a great testament to its capabilities and is an excellent way of showing any microscopists working with three-dimensional samples what incredible imaging power this system could bring to their research.”
