Commercial quantitative image analysis systems

Artek market a range of image analyzers. The Artek Omnicon 3600 is an advanced, easy to use system with turnkey application software. A precision scanner converts optical images into video signals that are presented on a high resolution monitor screen. The required measurement is selected from more than 20 parameters. The measure key is pushed and the answer appears ready to be printed out, saved or exported to any of a wide range of data bases and spreadsheet programs 

Automatix produces automated image analysis packages comprising data collection, spreadsheet analysis and charting to be used with the Macintosh computer. This has been used, in conjunction with ancillary equipment, to produce a computer digital analysis system [137] for around 4,000 [138]. Later, a more sophisticated system, costing around 20,000, was described for digital examination of film. 

Boeckeler manufacture simple systems which require more operator input but are less expensive than more automated systems. The VlA-20 Video Image Marker ean be used to mark details on a video image the VIA-50 includes a more varied array of positionable markers with an option for multiple overlay storage the VIA-100 can perform horizontal, vertical and point-to-point measurements, and the VIA-150 combines the capabilities of the VIA-50 and VIA-100. The VIA-160A1 video area measurement system can be combined with a video microscopy system to give cell areas, chord lengths and number counts. 

Buehler Omnimet II is a high resolution automatic image analysis system. 

Hamamatsu C-1000 is a computer compatible video camera that can be mounted on a microscope, macroviewer, optical bench or tripod. The 

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This is not to imply that molecular structure of simple organic molecules cannot be determined by infrared spectroscopy. In fact, the information that can be deduced from an infrared spectrum is complementary to that of other methods, and infrared spectroscopy provides valuable information that is unattainable by other methods, as is shown in the remainder of the book. More important, however, a plethora of other applications became available with the advent in 1969 of the first commercial mid-infrared Fourier transform spectrometer with better than 2cm resolution. These include quantitative analysis of complex mixtures, the investigation of dynamic systems, biological and biomedical spectroscopy, microspectroscopy and hyperspectral imaging, and the study of many types of interfacial phenomena. All of these applications (and many more) are described in this book. Furthermore, because of the development of such sampling techniques... 

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