Single click automatic scoring
Live video technology
Comet Assay IV has the ability to score comets from a live video. This makes Comet Assay IV the fastest, easiest and most accurate way to score comets to date.
Comet Assay IV is supplied with a USB video camera delivering up to 3x the resolution of previous models. This makes it possible to use lower power microscope objectives, offering a larger field of view and greater depth of field.
This combination greatly improves scoring speed, with more comets per field and less time spent at the controls of the microscope.
Unrivalled productivity and reproducibility
Comet Assay IV introduces Click&Score - a revolutionary automatic scoring method in which a single click on a comet initiates & completes the entire measurement cycle, including background correction, determination of head and tail regions and computation of all parameters.
With Click&Score, you simply have to identify the comet to be scored with a single click of the mouse. This has productivity and reproducibility advantages over manual framing methods that require users to position a measurement frame around each individual cell.
Eliminate user subjectivity and bias
The Click&Score method does not require the configuration of any adjustable settings, thereby eliminating all subjectivity from the scoring process.
Click&Score automatically compensates for slides with uneven backgrounds or varying levels of brightness, ensuring comparable results across a wide range of slides; even highly damaged 'hedgehog' comets can be accurately and consistently measured.
In addition, to further remove user bias, measurements for each slide are viewable within a scrollable results window, which can be hidden entirely for those wishing to score blind.
Data security ensured during scoring
Once the desired number of cells has been scored with Comet Assay IV, the user is prompted to save the data to Microsoft Excel before moving on to score the next slide.
For additional security and GLP compliance, the system can be configured to send result data to an Oracle database.