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US 2012/0114218 A1Published application
High fidelity colour imaging of microbial colonies
AssigneeSynoptics Limited
InventorsPhilip Atkin, Alasdair Graham Hayden-Wright
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Abstract
A system and an associated method of imaging microbial colonies in high fidelity and in colour. Differently coloured light sources are turned on and off in sequence and for each illumination colour an image is captured by a monochrome camera. The resultant respective monochrome images are combined into a composite colour image of the microbial colonies.
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A method of imaging microbial colonies in a sample, comprising the steps of:
- illuminating the colonies with light of different colours in turn;
- for each illumination colour, capturing a monochrome image of the colonies;
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- combining the respective monochrome images into a composite colour image of the microbial colonies.
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A microbial colony imaging system comprising:
- an illumination system adapted to illuminate microbial colonies in a sample with light of different colours in turn;
- an image capture device adapted to capture a monochrome image of the colonies for each illumination colour;
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- a processor to combine the respective monochrome images into a composite colour image of the microbial colonies.
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