QCount®

Spiral Biotech’s QCount^® Colony Counter Automates Microbial Enumeration by Processing Over 500 Plates per Hour

The QCount Automated Colony Counter from Spiral Biotech is illuminating the way for faster, easier, and more accurate microbial enumeration. QCount uses patent-pending technology to break through the limitations of ambient lighting and overlapping colonies to give you sharp, error-free plate counts. The QCount is ideal for any laboratory needing to count large numbers of bacterial colonies on Petri dishes.

Features:

• Autothresholding eliminates the need for time-consuming adjustments.
• Total analysis time of less than 1 second.
• Flexible data management with a high speed Dell Computer.
• High-resolution digital FireWire^TM CCD video camera captures a minimum colony size less than 0.08mm.
• Innovative lighting design assures uniform illumination and enhanced colony contrast.
• Full image-editing capabilities.
• User-selected data output.
• Hot-Line® Technical Service available 24/7.

How it Works:
Advanced image-analysis software detects the contour and contrast of each colony. Whether you are spread plating, pour plating or spiral plating with the Spiral Biotech Autoplate^® Spiral Plating System, QCount will help you count your plates more efficiently and more accurately than any hand-counting method