Pathology Devices Environmental Control
LiveCell™ System
With control over Temperature, %CO2, %RH, and %O2, the LiveCell™ system is the only fully integrated, easy‐to‐use stage top incubation platform. The push of a button provides adjustable, precise, and stable control of the time lapse imaging environment without the need for expensive pre-mixed gas, flow rate adjustments, or excessive evaporative loss of media.
Fine control of the humidity level inside of the chamber eliminates worry of condensation that might damage the microscope. With the LiveCell System and its single controller, time lapse observations can take place for days if not weeks.
The controller front panel provides full adjustment of Temperature, %CO2, %RH, and %O2. A simple change of the target “Set Value” causes the controllers to begin to maintain the environment at the new setting. Since the chamber is under a positive pressure, there is no doubt about the environment surrounding the specimen.
To operate the LiveCell System one simply sets the bottom half of the chamber in the stage opening, make the connections, adds water to the humidification bottle, turns the system on, waits for stability, then adds the sample.
Pathology Devices LiveCell™ integrated controller
Key Features
- Each function can be disabled at the touch of a button
- Five day walk away time
- Visual alarms indicate instability
- Positive pressure flow ensures that the environment in the chamber is as sensed
- Uses inexpensive 100% gas supply
- Supports Differential Interference Contrast (DIC), Fluorescence, and Phase Contrast imaging
- Chamber is just slightly larger than a multiwell plate and can incubate plates, chambered slides, and dishes
- No tools required to install
- Easily transported to other microscopes or labs
- Fits nearly all legacy and new microscopes from Nikon, Olympus, Leica Microsystems and Zeiss
- Compatible with new and legacy automated stages
- Works with condensers of short working distance
- Optional CO2 mixing, humidity control, O2 mixing, universal insert
- Modular design allows for future upgrades
Pathology Devices LiveCell™ chamber in place on an inverted microscope
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.
Specifications
| Temperature | |
|---|---|
| Temperature control | Room–50.0 °C ±0.1 |
| Temperature accuracy | <1.5 °C |
| Warm up time | <50 minutes |
| CO2 | |
| %CO2 control | 0.0–9.5% ±0.1% |
| %CO2 accuracy | <0.2% |
| CO2 usage | <1 liter/hour |
| Relative Humidity | |
| %RH control | Room–90% ±5% |
| %RH accuracy | <3% |
| Physical | |
| Controller dimensions | 10×13.5×5″ (depth × width × height) |
| Chamber dimensions | 4.5×6×1″ (depth × width × height) |
| Operating temperature | 20–27 °C |
| Power | 110/220 VAC 47/60 Hz @2.3 A |
| System Weight | 18 lbs |
Pathology Devices LiveCell™ chamber
Various vessels in the Pathology Devices LiveCell™ universal insertFurther information about the LiveCell™ System is available:
LiveCell™ is a trademark of Pathology Devices, Inc., Westminster, MD.