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Title:
CELL CULTURE OBSERVATION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OBSERVING CELL CULTURE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2005027623
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a cell culture apparatus that can continuously observe the exact change of cells with the passage of time simply in a short time as the cells are grown for a long period of time.

The cell culture observation apparatus 1 is for continuously observing the change of one or a plurality of cells A on a support 2 or in a solution and is equipped with following devices: the cultivation vessel 10 that receives the cells A and can retain the cell activity; a movable stage for holding the cell culture vessel 10; the photographing part 40 for photographing the cells A as they are separated into the areas corresponding to individual cells and separated cells are individually photographed; and the analyzing part 50 that extracts at least one kind of geometrical or optical features of individual cells in each areas on the basis of the photographic images in each area obtained in the photographing part 40 and the extracted features are analyzed.


Inventors:
MURAKI KAYU
IMABAYASHI HIROYUKI
Application Number:
JP2003273674A
Publication Date:
February 03, 2005
Filing Date:
July 11, 2003
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
OLYMPUS CORP
International Classes:
G01N21/64; C12M1/00; C12Q1/02; G01N21/27; G01N33/48; (IPC1-7): C12M1/00; C12Q1/02; G01N21/27; G01N33/48
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Sumio Tanai
Masatake Shiga
Masakazu Aoyama
Suzuki Mitsuyoshi
Tadao Takashiba
Kunio Ueda