Evolve™ "Intelligent" EMCCD Camera from Photometrics® Makes Imaging Quantifiable and Reproducible

Tucson, AZ — Tucson, AZ – February 9, 2009 – Photometrics®, a designer and manufacturer of high-performance CCD and EMCCD cameras for the life sciences, today announced the introduction of the Evolve™ EMCCD camera, the first camera to make experimental imaging data quantifiable and reproducible by using the photoelectron to scientifically measure an image.

Before the Evolve, scientific-grade CCD cameras provided data in arbitrary imaging units, making it time consuming and challenging to reproduce study results. Evolve’s most significant innovation, the Quant-View™ feature, provides a repeatable methodology to gather and interpret data by reading out pixel values in photoelectrons. By using Evolve in Quant-View mode, investigators can ensure their experimental data are well-controlled and consistent, as well as reproducible within and across labs.

"Scientific research is often hindered by conflicting data and inconsistent data measurement, resulting in delays, loss of funding and disputable study outcomes,” said Deepak Sharma, Ph.D., Photometrics' Camera Product Manager. “With the Evolve camera, researchers can now attain the purest measurement of a scientific image, which is crucial considering the growing popularity of ultra-quantitative techniques such as PALM and STORM, where certainty of measurement is essential.

In addition to QuantView, the Evolve offers the most sophisticated feature set available for quantitative, low-light-level situations:

• Rapid-Cal™ provides the most accurate, simplest and fastest EM calibration technique in the industry.
• Background Event Reduction Technology™ (BERT) enables researchers to correct spurious event data.
• Top-Lock™ and Black-Lock™ are complementary intensity filtering tools, which allow researchers to narrow visualization to the intensity range of the image features under study.
• Evolve provides a deep-cooled platform with the lowest dark current, least read noise, and best vacuum guarantee of any EMCCD camera in the industry.

This advanced set of features makes the camera ideally suited to life science applications including super-resolution fluorescence microscopy, e.g., Photo-Activated Localization Microscopy (PALM) and Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy (STORM), as well as low light applications such as spinning disk confocal microscopy, Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy, cell trafficking studies, live-cell fluorescent protein imaging, and Single Molecule Fluorescence (SMF).

About Photometrics

Founded in 1978, Photometrics is the world's premier designer and manufacturer of high-performance CCD and EMCCD cameras for the life sciences. The original architect of the world's 1st scientific grade microscopy EMCCD camera, tens of thousands of researchers across the globe rely on Photometrics' state-of-the-art imaging instrumentation, including its popular CoolSNAP™, Cascade®, and QuantEM® cameras to meet their most demanding application requirements. Photometrics also offers comprehensive OEM support, including fully characterized, cost efficient imaging systems and components that offer the best solutions for customers' unique requirements. Photometrics is ISO 9001 certified.