Andor iQ is designed from years of experience and understanding of the demands that capturing highly dynamic cellular processes impose. iQ integrates a range of additional hardware for multi-parameter and multi-modal imaging, including devices such as confocal scanners, light sources including our own laser combiner, filter wheels and x,y, & z motorized stage control. Automation of this hardware with image capture is tightly controlled for optimum capture rates, and to minimise unnecessary light exposure for prolonged live cell imaging.

Recognizing that most biologists do not have time to learn a complex user interface, and that live biology frequently demands immediate attention, iQ3 provides a radical new user interface designed with workflow and rapid configuration in mind. In addition, IQ3’s new user management capabilities make life easier for both the user and the facility manager to create and manage personal settings, protect experimental configurations and images between users, and track time spent on systems for auditing. For all users of iQ this means a more efficient work flow and better productivity.

In addition to providing an Andor system solution, iQ can also be independently used with our Photostimulation devices dedicated to light manipulation techniques such as optogenetics, optophysiology, photobleaching (FRAP), photoactivation, photoconversion, ablation, uncaging and D damage. iQ will control these devices when fitted to 3rd party systems that have no dedicated software support of their own, capturing images from the host software for calibration and targeting.

iQ can be used for a range of bioimaging applications such as 3D live cell imaging, TIRF, ion imaging, bioluminescence and FRET. This makes iQ ideal for many research fields including cancer research, developmental biology, neuroscience, embryology, stem cell, and plant biology; capturing images from small subcellular components such as vesicles up to whole samples such as zebrafish and drosophila embryos. Continuous development and improvement ensures that Andor iQ represents a powerful and flexible core for live-cell imaging systems.