1. HIGH QUALITY

• Stainless steel body
• Ultra HD color camera
• Digital zoom x 64
• Resolution : 5 mega-pixels
• Counting : 1000 colonies per second
• Colony minimum size : 0.05 mm

2. THE LARGEST READING RANGE ON THE MARKET

• Round Petri dishes from ø 55 to ø 150 mm
• Square Petri dishes of 120 mm
• Chromogenic Petri dishes
• PetriFilmTM
• Compact DryTM
• Filtration membranes

3. UNEQUALLED LIGHTING

• 360° LED lighting, without reflection or shadow of the dish with White Dome
• CCD 5 megapixels camera, detects bare eye invisible details
• Beam Splitter to ensure lighting 100% without reflections or shadows
• Automatic detection of the dish + reading on 100% of the dish

4. SOFTWARE EFFICIENCY

• All functions in 1 window
• Automatic optimization of the contrast, luminosity and sensitivity
• Automatic corrections of the agar defects
• Automatic separation of confluent colonies
• Automatic elimination of counting grids
• Cross on each counted colony
• Polygonal exclusion areas
• Pre-set medias: PCA/TSA, MRS, VRBL, TBX, TSC, Baird Parker, GVPC, L.Mono, YM

4. INHIBITION ZONES

• Rapid detection: up to 16 antibiotic sensitivities per dish in 1 click
• 3 diffusion modes: paper disks (all brands), wells, peni-cylinders
• Inhibition zones and agar wells can be manually added or deleted
• Built-in antibiotic database: CA-SFM (French Society of Microbiology), EUCAST (European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing)
• Reads on: Muller Hinton agar, blood agar, chocolate agar
• Accuracy of inhibition zone measurement: 0.1 mm

5. FULL TRACEABILITY

• Harmonization of the results within a team
• Automatic archiving and printing of data: pictures, comments & results
• External traceability ( Session saved, Excel™, PDF, JPEG, BMP, Scan® printed report )
• Internal traceability ( Barcode, file archive, LIMS connection )
• Securization of the sessions ( Compliance with CFR 21 part 11: system securization, operational controls and documentation management )

6. EXCELLENT REPRODUCIBILITY AND REPEATABILITY

• GLP (Good laboratory Practice)
• In compliance with :
• CFR 21 part 11
• ISO 7218
• ISO 4833-2
• NF V08-034
• AOAC 977.27
• FDA-BAM standards

Scan® SOFTWARE

Scan automatic colony counters use an exclusive software developped by INTERSCIENCE: evolutive, user-friendly and powerful.

There are numerous advantages in using Scan counting software :

- Only one clic to count

- Only one setting cursor

- Traceability: automatic saving of data, Excel™ export

To try the demo version with your samples, please identify below or register here

  Download Scan® demo software

1. VISUALISATION WINDOW

Detected colonies are highlighted and marked with a cross.

2. PARAMETERS WINDOW

Only one cursor to optimize counting. customizable settings adaptable to any kind of agar.

3. RESULTS WINDOW

All previously recorded data can be checked anytime.

EASY DATA EXPORT

Scan software provides easy ways to export quickly your results:

- Work sessions saving

- PDF export

- JPEG, BMP export

- Results exported to Excel™

- Scan printed report

EXAMPLE OF A SCAN PRINTED REPORT

Check in a glance images before and after counting, complete sample information, comments and results.

Specifications