Recent developments in digital camera technology have created new potential to greatly improve the capabilities of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) in virus research and diagnostics. Digital cameras connected to TEM provide Vironova with the base to develop an innovative image analysis technology platform which can put TEM into the forefront of the viral analysis field. Click here to read more about the history of and progress in TEM technology.
Vironova’s proprietary image analysis platform includes techniques that allow objective structural analysis of viruses and other nanoparticles in highly textured TEM digital images. Highly textured images are the results when biological samples are visualized in extreme magnifications (normally 10-100.000x) and makes automated image analysis a very troublesome process.
The image analysis technology is applicable to viruses as well as a wide range of nano-sized particles and provides automatically data and analysis of particle morphology, identity and quantity. The very same techniques in different combinations and executions provide the base for Vironova´s virus diagnostics products and image analysis services.