Pathology Devices Environmental Control
LiveCell™ System
With the optional addition of humidity control, extended time lapse observations are now possible with the LiveCell™ system: a completely integrated and easy to use stage top incubation system for inverted microscopes.
At the push of a button you have adjustable, precise, and stable control over the Temperature, %CO2, and Humidity without the need for expensive pre-mixed gas, flow rate adjustments, or excessive evaporative loss of media during long observations.
Front view of Pathology Devices LiveCell™
Key Features
- Adjustable closed-loop control
- Five day worry-free walk away time
- Visual alarms indicate instability
- Fail-safe heating
- Uses inexpensive CO2 gas
- No tools required to install and run
- Easily transported to other labs
- Controller can be located up to six feet from the chamber
- Each function can be disabled
- Optional RS-232 Interface
- Fits microscopes from Nikon, Olympus, Leica Microsystems and Zeiss
- Accommodates condensers of various working distances
- Supports Differential Interference Contrast (DIC), Fluorescence, and Phase Contrast imaging
- Chamber is small yet large enough for nearly all sample configurations
- Optional Humidity control
Rear view of Pathology Devices LiveCell™
Adaptable chamber
The chamber design is small enough to fit most inverted microscopes with flat stage tops, yet large enough to accommodate a broad range of sample vessels such as slides, dishes, multiwell plates, and even incubation flasks. Different lid lenses allow you to configure the chamber for the largest sample vessel possible.
Specifications
- Temperature control to 50.0 °C.
- Temperature stability ±0.1 °C.
- Temperature accuracy <0.2 °C
- Temperature response time 5 seconds.
- Warm up and stabilization time <30 minutes.
- %CO2 control to 10.0% ±0.1%.
- %CO2 stability ±0.1%.
- %CO2 accuracy ±2% of maximum.
- %CO2 response time 20 seconds.
- CO2 usage is <1 liter∕hour
- %RH control to 100% ±1%.
- %RH stability ±1%.
- %RH accuracy ±2% maximum.
- %RH response time 15 seconds.
- Minimum Operational room temperature 25 °C
- Power 110 VAC-50/60 Hz @2.36 A.
- Optional Power 220 VAC-50/60 Hz @1.3 A.
- Weight 20 lbs.
Pathology Devices LiveCell™ chamber in place on an upright microscope
Further information about the LiveCell™ System is available:
LiveCell™ is a trademark of Pathology Devices, Inc., Westminster, MD.