HRPCS Camera System - Photek - #1

• Extreme sensitivity with single photon counting capabilities

• Automatic centre of gravity detection ensures high • resolution in photon counting mode •

• Bright field mode with real time video output for focussing •

• Photon co-ordinates can be spooled to a sequential disk file • during data acquisition •

• Powerful sequential file analysis software provides post ^ experiment time resolved image analysis ^

• 18, 25, 40 and 75 mm image intensifier options. ^

• Large format X-ray camera options ^

• Vacuum imaging detector camera options ^

Bio and chemiluminescence

Measurement of acquorin, luciferase and ATP expression

Simultaneous fluorescence and luminescence

Measurement of rate constants

Analysis of micro-titre plates

Multiple wavelength imaging

Contact imaging of samples

Astronomy

Autoradiography

X-ray photon counting

HRPCS-3 is a development of Photek's highly successful "High Resolution Photon Counting System" which was established in 1994 as a result of a EUREKA project "Phobia". Certain aspects of the system are subject to ESA patents for which Photek has a license.

This second generation photon counting system offers a true single photon counting sensitivity camera along with high spatial resolution. The heart of the system is based around one of a range of Photek's photon counting cameras. This, together with a camera control unit, proprietary PCI frame grabber card (for PC compatible computers) and IFS32 data acquisition and image processing software completes the package.

The complete system comprises a photon counting camera, camera controller, PCI interface card, IFS32 software and a PC compatible computer running Windows 98/ME/2000. The recommended minimum specification computer is a 1GhZ Pentium or Athlon processor with 256Mb ram and video card capable of 1280x1024 resolution. A CD writer and large hard disk is also recommended.