Aurox Unity

Tap and hold, then drag out a wire frame over the desired tilescan area.

Unity does the rest.

Spin the focus Z wheel up and down and tap to mark the top and bottom of the Z-stack.

One tap each switches on or off the colour channels.

Set exposure times and brightness by dragging up or down on the respective colour chevrons.

Handy histograms help you achieve optimal settings.

One tap and it’s all about confocal. Tap again and it’s widefield.

Adjusting the sectioning is just a tap!

Add one or more regions of interest (ROI) to an experiment.

Choose a ROI, adjust the settings and swipe right to set a region of interest.

Repeat, as many times as you like.

At anytime, swipe down with two fingers to review and edit the set ROIs.

Unity is supplied with three interchangeable sample holders allowing you to image all your samples, whether they are mounted in multi-well plates, petri-dishes or slides.

Each of the Unity sample holders has a retention system to hold the sample securely in the holder and a three point magnetic location system which connects to Unity’s XY stage on loading. This system ensures the sample holder position is securely held throughout imaging experiments.

Unity’s red cased incubator sample stage provides heating and CO2 gas connections for sample environment control, allowing your live-cell samples to be maintained at 35-37 degrees Celsius and under CO₂ for the duration of your longer term imaging experiments (external humidifier and CO₂ mixer required).

Unity iOS provides all the functionality required for the set-up, control and review of confocal and widefield imaging experiments in a quick and easy to use iPAD application.
Imaging is easy with Unity.
Simply:

• Tap
• Drag
• Swipe

Unity comes complete with an iPad Pro tablet computer for full fingertip control.
The iPAD communicates directly with Unity over a dedicated and secure private wireless connection, issuing commands and visualising data saved on Unity’s built in image server.
For speed of data stream response, images are optimised for fast feedback and display on the iPAD. The full high resolution collected images are permanently stored on Unity’s internal server.
The iPAD works as a remote control, issuing commands and receiving feedback. All command actions are controlled by Unity’s internal control software and firmware.

Our spinning disk confocal technology is upto 50% more light efficient than our competitors, meaning Lasers are not needed.
Instead, Unity uses a built in multi-spectral LED light source of high brightness and based on the CoolLED pE-300Ultra, making Unity:

• Free from laser safety restrictions;
• Low photo-toxicity;
• Low photo-bleaching;
• Low maintenance;
• Low cost of ownership.

At the heart of Unity is a custom designed large format and high performance sCMOS digital camera. Developed in collaboration with Ximea, the camera has been designed specifically for use in Unity and for confocal imaging experiments.

Unity’s camera has a novel design, consisting of two 2k x 2k scientific grade CMOS chips mounted side by side with shared electronics such that the two chips are pixel to pixel registered allowing Aurox’s patented approach to laser-free confocal imaging.

Unity uses the camera to record both confocal and widefield images in both the low magnification sample overview mode (large field of view of 4mm x 4mm) and also in the high magnification 4-100x mode for the imaging of high resolution Z-stacks.

Designed for the laboratory bench-top, Unity is extremely compact and self-contained, weighing less than 25 Kg. Gone are the tangle of cables found on other confocal systems. Unity requires a single power cable and has rear ports for the connection of a CO2 supply. Unity can be networked wirelessly, but it also has a wired network connection and multiple USB-3 / USB-c ports if required.

Unity does more than just collect high quality confocal imaging data. Unity also stores your data on 2x 2Tb SSD integrated servers and makes your data accessible to you, wherever you are over a secure network.