aeroIScope® is a prototype of an automatic slide scanning apparatus!! It was constructed to simulate the routine pollen counting
in appropriate time and at reasonable costs!
For standard monitoring, 3 longitudinal lines on up to 10 standard slides are scanned with demanded accuracy
(now 0.2 µm positioning). Ofher patterns of slide scanning can be programed: Each point of a slide can be reached and
integrated in a custom made schem.
The number of pictures can be limited to about 100 pictures per line, thus in less than 5 minutes
a slide can be operated, needing 750 Mb storage capacity,
- Using a magnification, able to see
details of the grain and
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Focussing automatically as often as needed.
Both options become possible by the aroprot® staining of the pollen:
It gives a clear contrast for discrimination from other particlesand a special partitioning of colour
(special pattern) enables discrimination of certain pollen species. For this reasons
Only
one level of focus per picture is sufficient and
PCS image analysis software can detect and discriminate pollen from the images and classify it according to discrete criteria,
extracted from the picture segments and defined by operator in sets of rules.