| SCA® |
| SCA® Motility and concentration |
SCA® Morphology |
SCA® DNA Fragmentation |
SCA® Vitality |
|
| Computer |
| Desktop or Laptop I Operating system: Windows XP or Windows 7 I Processor: Intel Pentium 4 or higher I RAM: 512 MB (1 GB recommended) I Graphic card: 128 MB settled at 1024x768 I Free space in the hard disk: 5 GB I CD-RW or DVD-ROM I Free USB I Free FireWire or PCI ports |
|
| Camera |
|
| Camera properties |
Digital FireWire I
782x582 Capture, minimum 25 frames per second |
Colour or B/W Digital FireWire
782x582 Capture |
Colour Digital FireWire
782x582 Capture
High sensitivity |
|
| Microscope |
| Nikon, Olympus, Zeiss or Leica I Trinocular with C mount without intermediate lens I Phase contrast turret type |
|
| Objective |
| 10x (positive phase contrast) |
100x (oil immersion)
60x |
20x |
Single-Vital: 10x
Duo-Vital: 20x |
|
| Observation method |
| Positive phase contrast |
Brightfield |
Brightfield or Fluorescence |
Fluorescence |
|
| Filter |
| Green filter |
Blue filter |
Green filter
Bandpass Filter (excitation 510-560, emission 590) |
Bandpass Filter
(excitation 450-490, emission 515) |
|
| Disposables: slide / kit / staining |
| Leja, Cell-VU. Makler |
SpermBlue, Diff-Quik,
Cell-VU prestained slides, Stat III, Papanicolau, Shorr |
Halosperm kit |
With motility: Single-Vital kit
With vitality:
Duo-Vital kit |
|