PHE_Scientific- Purchase of image acquisition software

Tender description

Public Health England (PHE) requires the provision of image acquisition software for use with microscopes located in its Centre for Radiation Chemical & Environmental Hazards (CRCE) radiation biology research laboratories. Due to the nature of the work, the software must be able to fulfil the following requirements: • Installed as a stand-alone system • Options for colour karyotyping, multicolour FISH (mFISH) and comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) • Acquire fluorescence images with up to 12 colour channels • Automatic exposure time adjustment • Automatic image enhancement tools • Image processing function – able to enhance, edit, annotate, measure, print and archive images • Integrated focus stack function to analyse 3D objects • Ability to remove unspecific background • Multiple customizable colour display modes (RGB, individual colours, modified colours, merged colours, grey scale, inverted grey scale, combinatorial false colours).