

The ImagEM-1K is a brand new member of the C9100 camera series. Combining our decades of experience with high vacuum technology and all the latest advances in CCD circuit design this new camera offers application independent imaging. From the very brightest high dynamic range applications to single photon imaging over long integrations, this camera provides images with the very best signal to noise ratios. The key to this versatility is the E2V CCD97 CCD and Hamamatsu creative engineering. New methods for driving this well known CCD offer special modes of operation for fast, low noise operation and special patent pending synchronization with spinning disk confocal and multi-point confocal microscopes.
With both on-chip multiplication and normal CCD readout amplifiers, a choice of readout speeds is included to match the signal to noise requirements of the application. New on-board signal processing features provide a choice of real time frame averaging, background subtraction with offset and shading correction. Unmatched cooling and cooling stability provided the very best in quantitative data collection even at high frame rates.
And now the new ImagEM-1K offers a high resolution format of 1024 x 1024 pixels and 13 mm pixels for high N.A. imaging.
Features
- -80 °C cooling with hermetic sealed head
- Air or water cooled
- Gain stability/Temperature stability
- Dual readout mode
- Multiple pixel clock selection
- Photon imaging mode (Patent pending)
- Real time image processing
- External trigger/Synchronous readout trigger (Patent pending)
- Programmable trigger signal output
- Multiple heads capability
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Applications
- Intracellular ion imaging
- Intravital fluorescence microscopy and blood flow studies
- Fast tracking of small particles
- Single molecule observation at the photon level
- High speed fluorescence cell tomography
- High dynamic range brightfield imaging
- NIR and NIR DIC imaging
- Luminescence imaging
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Key Specifications
| Imaging device | Back-thinned Frame transfer CCD |
| Shutter | No |
| Horizontal number of pixels | 1024 |
| Vertical number of pixels | 1024 |
| Cell size - horizontal | 13 µm |
| Cell size - vertical | 13 µm |
| Effective Horizontal Size | 13.3 mm |
| Effective Vertical Size | 13.3 mm |
| Pixel clock rate Scan Mode 1 | EM-CCD mode: 11 MHz, 2.75 MHz, 0.69 MHz/pixel |
| Pixel clock rate Scan Mode 2 | Normal CCD mode: 2.75 MHz, 0.69 MHz |
| Frame Rate Scan Mode 1 | Fastest in EM-CCD mode (with binning and subarray) 9.5fps to 231 fps |
| Read noise Scan Mode 1 |
EM-CCD Gain 4x: 11 MHz: 12 e r.m.s., 2.75 MHz: 10 e r.m.s., 0.69 MHz: 4 EM-CCD Gain 1200x: at all clock speeds: <1 e-r.m.s. |
| Read noise Scan Mode 2 | Normal-CCD: 2.75 MHz: 19 e r.m.s. , 0.69 MHz: 10 e-r.m.s. |
| Full well capacity Scan Mode 1 | 400,000 e-, Max 730,000 e- |
| A/D converter Scan Mode 1 | 16 bit |
| Dark current |
Forced-air cooled (-55°C) 0.01 e-/pix/sec Water cooled (-70° C) 0.001 e-/pix/sec |
| Cooling Method | Multi-stage Peltier with forced air or water |
| Cooling Temperature |
Air cooling Mode: -55 °C. Water cooling Mode: -80 °C |
| Output type | Camera link |
| Exposure time min | 0.01 msec. |
| External control | Camera link |
| Sub-array | Yes |
| Binning | Yes, 2x2, 4x4 standard (8x8 and 16x16 optional) |
| External trigger | Yes. Programmable delay, pulse width, and polarity |
| Contrast Enhancement | No |
| Lens mount | C-mount |
| Line voltage | AC 100 V to 240 V, 50 Hz/60 Hz |
| Power consumption | 140 VA |



