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 New Retiga-EXL Camera Offers Speed with Low-Noise Readout |
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| December 14, 2007 |
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Surrey, Canada — QImaging® is pleased to introduce the Retiga-EXL, the world’s first 30MHz, 14-bit, cooled CCD camera available for the bio-imaging market. This new addition to QImaging’s popular Retiga™ product line offers the remarkable speed of Lightwire™ 800, an optimized version of the IEEE-1394b protocol. The camera utilizes a Sony® ICX285 interline sensor to provide megapixel resolution and excellent sensitivity.
The Retiga-EXL is ideally suited to many life science and industrial imaging applications, including real-time DIC, real-time spinning-disk confocal microscopy, cell-motility studies, biofilm imaging, particle tracking, semiconductor inspection, solar panel inspection, and high-speed, low-light, live-cell fluorescence imaging.
Lightwire 800 delivers 800Mb/s bandwidth capacity and enables the camera to read out 15 full-resolution frames per second when operated at 30MHz with 14-bit digitization. The camera can also provide 14-bit digital output at 20 and 10MHz, as well as 8-bit digitization at all three of these readout frequencies. Flexible binning and ROI capabilities further increase sensitivity and speed. Variable exposure times range from 10 microseconds to 17.9 minutes.
The Retiga-EXL offers low read noise (6.5e- at 10MHz), along with regulated cooling of the CCD down to 0°C. QCapture Suite software is included with every Retiga-EXL and the new camera can be run on Windows® and Mac operating systems. A tightly synchronized RGB filter option enables the Retiga-EXL to be utilized for quantitative, high-resolution color imaging.
For more information, please contact:
Deepak Sharma
Product Manager
dsharma@qimaging.com
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