Expanded smart microscopy image acquisition capability set
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Smart Acquisition Toolkit Expand Smart Microscopy Possibilities and Increase Image Acquisition Efficiency.

With ZEISS‘s portfolio, you can master imaging in 3D and in time, and in various scales of resolution. To harness the full potential of smart microscopy, the Smart Acquisition Toolkit offers software tools to run comprehensive and guided image acquisition sequences and feedback microscopy workflows.

  • Targeted Imaging with Guided Acquisition
  • Multi-step Acquisitions with Experiment Designer
  • Tune Acquisition Settings on-the-run with Experiment Feedback
Rare cell division event enlarged on a light microscopy image
Rare cell division event enlarged on a light microscopy image

Brilliant Display of Individual Objects

Smart microscopy for rare event analysis

Accurate research requires differentiated data. Guided Acquisition inspects sample images: A fast overview scan, intelligent detection of individual objects and relevant details in high resolution, supported by workflow automation and Machine Learning. With ZEN’s Smart Acquisition tool, even rare events quickly deliver brilliant results.

Experiment Designer operation window in the ZEN software
Experiment Designer operation window in the ZEN software

Combine Acquisitions With Experiment Designer

Efficient workflows for getting the most out of each experiment

ZEN‘s acquisition setup enables complex acquisitions with tiling, stacks, time series and many more. If the default options are not enough, the Experiment Designer offers even more flexibility by creating multi-block sequences of freely adjustable acquisitions, loops and time delay blocks.

Experiment Feedback operation window in the ZEN software

Acquisition Fine-Tuning With Experiment Feedback

Interface for dynamic adaption of your experiment

Do you want to conduct smart fine-tuning for your acquisition already while imaging? With Experiment Feedback you can modify key acquisition parameters such as laser power, exposure time and many more, all during or in-between single acquisitions. With this tool you can use image analysis on-the-fly to obtain optimal image data with feedback microscopy from the start.

Smart Acquisition Technology Insights

The simplicity of guided acquisition workflows
  • Smart Acquisition of Drosophila Embryos in ZEN

    Sample courtesy of Dr. G. Wolfstetter, University of Gothenburg, Germany

Guided Image Acquisition of Rare Events

Detect dynamic events with unprecedented precision and efficiency

Rare Events Focused Acquisition

Obtain less, but more specific data

Scientists may be interested in phenomena that occur so rarely within a sample such that scanning the whole sample becomes unfeasible. With Smart Acquisition you can find your rare event by analysing the image, and subsequently acquiring the part of the image which contains a rale event with high-resolution in space and time.

Annotation and model training in arivis Cloud for the detection of prometaphase (green) and metaphase cells (red).
Annotation and model training in arivis Cloud for the detection of prometaphase (green) and metaphase cells (red).
Detection of prometaphase (green) and metaphase cells (red), powered by AI.

Integration of AI-Driven Analysis

Advanced analysis tools for excellent event detection

Cutting-edge analysis tools are available in the smart acquisition workflow. Including ZEISS arivis Cloud, in which you easily train your own AI models for image segmentation.

Fully Automated Rare Event Detection

Screening experiments are accessible with smart acquisition

The guided acquisition workflow allows for full automation to detect and collect rare events in unattended long-term experiments. For example, working with samples in multi-well plates in a screening setting.

Links to Open Application Development

Guided acquisition and Experiment Feedback workflows can be very powerful tools with a high degree of flexibility and automation. ZEISS microscopy provides Github pages with tutorials and experimental examples. We invite you to please visit these repositories, to further explore the possibilities of the Smart Acquisition Toolkit.

  • Experiment Feedback Repository

    • Suite of example applications showcasing Experiment Feedback features
    • Tutorials, scripts and data for easy onboarding
  • Guided Acquisition Repository

    • OAD macro template to customize Guided Acquisition workflow
    • Tutorials, scripts and data for easy onboarding

Downloads

  • ZEN Guided Acquisitionfor Life Sciences Applications

    Guided Acquisition:Automate your microscopy - Detect rare events with ease

    4 MB


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