Fluid Imaging Premiers First Color-Imaging Particle Analyzer
Edgecomb, ME (June 5, 2006)- Fluid Imaging Technologies today introduced theFlowCAM-CX, the world’s first color-imaging particle analyzer. The FlowCAM-CXintegrates microscopy and flow cytometry into one instrument; the technologycounts, images, and analyzes particles in a discrete sample or a continuous flow.To add additional discriminating capabilities, Fluid Imaging enhanced the originalFlowCAM® with color imaging capacity to create the FlowCAM-CX.
“The FlowCAM-CX is not only the most powerful, but the most intuitive particleanalyzer available,” said Kent Peterson, CEO of Fluid Imaging Technologies,“The FlowCAM-CX, with its color capability, offers a new dimension in clarity andparticle identification.”
The FlowCAM-CX produces clear, digital images in color, eliminating timeconsumingmicroscope preparation. Researchers and technicians can identifyand analyze particles and cells using over twenty different image parameters. Inaddition to color, the FlowCAM-CX also utilizes fluorescence for added particleselectivity.
To provide fast and precise data collection, the FlowCAM-CX is integrated withVisualSpreadsheet™ technology: proprietary software that captures a digitalimage of each cell and presents the data in an easy-to-read image-basedspreadsheet. The FlowCAM-CX also uses an interactive scattergram, whichallows the user to highlight a particular area of interest on a scattergram and thendisplay all particle images associated with that area.
Typical uses of the FlowCAM-CX include aquatic research and monitoring,ballast water testing, water systems testing, and harmful algal bloom detectionand warnings. In addition to traditional oceanic and aquatic applications,FlowCAM technology has proven essential for a range of other industries. Theseinclude chemical and pharmaceutical industries, petroleum, and a variety ofcommercial industries.
"The original FlowCAM was a breakthrough," said Dr. James Bonner of theCivil Engineering Department of the Environmental Water Resource Center atTexas A&M University. "The technology has proven very valuable to our workhere at the Texas A&M. By adding color, the FlowCAM-CX provides yet anotherdegree of capability."
Like the original FlowCAM, the FlowCAM-CX is available in portable or benchtopmodels. More information about the Flow-CAM-CX can be found at
www.fluidimaging.com
About Fluid Imaging
Fluid Imaging Technologies manufactures and markets the FlowCAM—acontinuous digital imaging particle analyzer. The FlowCAM was originallydeveloped at Bigelow Laboratories for Ocean Sciences to be used inoceanographic applications such as the study of harmful algae. Since thefounding of Fluid Imaging Technologies in 1999, the company has expanded intointernational oceanographic markets, and FlowCAMs are now being used in abroad range of industrial, commercial, and research applications around theworld.
For more information, contact Lew Brown, Fluid Imaging Technologies, Inc.; 65 Forest Falls Drive, Yarmouth, ME 04096; 207.846.6100.; Fax 207.846.6110;
www.fluidimaging.com;
lew@fluidimaging.com.