Abstract:
An observation device includes: a housing having, in a top surface, a glass window on which a vessel accommodating samples is placed and through which illumination light is transmitted; and an image acquisition unit accommodated in the housing and configured to capture transmitted light obtained after illumination light is transmitted through the samples from above, is transmitted through the glass window, and enters the housing.
Abstract:
The system includes a passage presence/absence information acquiring and generating section that acquires or generates previous passage presence/absence information, which indicates whether passage work was conducted or not, at respective previous observation time points at which observation information containing a cell image and activity data were acquired in a time series manner through an observation information acquiring section; and a passage number acquiring and generating section that acquires or generates at least the current passage number at the current observation time point, automatically or through an operation by a user, based on the previous passage presence/absence information acquired or generated by the passage presence/absence information acquiring and generating section, thereby to prevent erroneous input of passage numbers by the user.
Abstract:
An device for sustained release of liquid according to the present invention includes: an outer pouch-shaped elastic member 2; an inner pouch-shaped elastic member placed inside the outer pouch-shaped elastic member and capable of being inflated; a liquid-holding section 3 holding liquid between the inner pouch-shaped elastic member and the outer pouch-shaped elastic member; and minute holes provided for the outer pouch-shaped elastic member, the diameter of the minute holes being changed by inflation and deflation.
Abstract:
A device for sustained release of optical clearing agent includes a stick-shaped component having at least two supplying passages for supplying gas or liquid formed on the inside with apertures of the supplying passages being formed at positions along the circumference of the lateral surface in the vicinity of the top end of the stick-shaped component respectively, at least two pouch-shaped elastic components placed at positions along the circumference of the lateral surface in the vicinity of the top end of the stick-shaped component respectively to cover the apertures of the supplying passages respectively, an optical clearing agent holding component fixed on the surface of one of the pouch-shaped elastic components and holding optical clearing agent, and a body-fluid absorbing component fixed on the surface of another one of the pouch-shaped elastic components and absorbing body fluid flowing from a target object or dehydrating the target object by osmotic pressure.
Abstract:
An image processing device includes: one or more processors including hardware. The one or more processors are configured to: calculate, on a basis of a reference image acquired by capturing an image of a reference subject which has an optical characteristic that is equivalent to at least a part of a living body, image transformation parameters through congruence transformation that transforms a coordinate corresponding to a color of target region included in the reference image defined in a color space into a coordinate corresponding to an achromatic color in the color space; and perform, in the color space on a basis of the calculated image transformation parameters, the congruence transformation of colors of a color image acquired by capturing an image of the living body, the color image being constituted by at least two monochromatic image corresponding to different illumination having different center wavelengths.
Abstract:
A cell observation system includes an imaging element that acquires images of the inside of a culture container in which cells are cultured, the imaging element acquiring the images over time; a computer configured to: quantitatively analyze a culture state of the cells cultured in the culture container on the basis of each of the images acquired by the imaging element; and statistically analyze the quantitatively analyzed data; and a display that displays statistical analysis results in the culture container within a plurality of subculture periods obtained by the computer in a manner allowing comparison of the statistical analysis results.
Abstract:
For the purpose of counting the number of cells within a culture container readily and accurately, a cell analysis device includes a cell-image acquiring unit that acquires an image of cells within a culture container in which the cells are cultured, a usability determining unit that determines whether or not the image acquired by the cell-image acquiring unit is usable, a number-of-cells counting unit that counts the number of cells within the image determined as being usable by the usability determining unit, and a number-of-cells calculating unit that calculates the number of cells within the culture container based on the number of cells counted by the number-of-cells counting unit.
Abstract:
Provided is a biological tissue observation apparatus including an optical fiber probe that receives fluorescence via an input end disposed at one end thereof and that optically guides the fluorescence toward the base end in the longitudinal direction, a photodetector that is disposed facing an output end disposed at the base end of the optical fiber probe and that detects the fluorescence output from the output end, and a scatter suppressing unit provided near the input end of the optical fiber probe.
Abstract:
A cell observation information processing system includes: a tag acquiring section that acquires, as a search tag for searching for observation information acquired in response to an acquisition order at one time point, tags containing a cell name, first culture tool identifying information for identifying a culture tool for culturing cells under observation, and second culture tool identifying information for identifying a passage-source culture tool; a storing section that stores in an archive section each piece of the observation information acquired at each time point upon assigning thereto the search tag; a search criterion acquiring section that acquires, as a search criterion, tags containing a cell name and first culture tool identifying information; and a retrieving section that searches through the archive section using the acquired search criterion and retrieves search-tagged observation information on cells having undergone passage of culture from a single cell line over a plurality of generations.
Abstract:
An observation apparatus is equipped with a housing including a top plate that is a stage on which a container that accommodates a sample is placed; an optical system accommodated in the housing; an imaging device configured to capture an image of the sample with light from the sample that has entered through the stage and the optical system; and a motor that is a power source of a moving mechanism configured to make the optical system move in a direction along the stage. At least one of the imaging device or the motor is placed outside the housing.