Where Science and Art Meet Images Generated by Auto-Montage Shown at Prestigious Art Exhibition

Date: 24.04.03 Cambridge, UK: Syncroscopy, the world leader in unique digital imaging solutions for microscopy applications is pleased to announce Auto-Montage, its powerful imaging system has produced images of such outstanding quality that they have been shown as works of art.

Auto-Montage was used to capture and analyse many partially focused digital images of three-dimensional hard tissues such as bones and teeth. Many of the resulting infinite depth of focus images were considered so extraordinary they were featured in an art exhibition entitled, ‘The Microscope and The Skeleton: A Digital Photomicrography of Hard Tissues’ held at the acclaimed, Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery in New York.

Professor Timothy Bromage, Professor of Anthropology at the Analytical Microscopy and Imaging Centre in Anthropology (AMICA) and curator of this show stated:

“Using Auto-Montage we are now able to create stunning visual images of the microscopic world of hard tissues in a way that we could not possibly do using film-based media. This software not only demonstrates the important relationship between science and new trends in graphic imaging but also represents a major advance in solving strategic research problems in the anthropological and biomedical sciences.”

Bob Town, Syncroscopy’s General Sales Manager added: ”Since AMICA is home to one of the US’s premier imaging laboratory within the social sciences we are honoured to see Auto-Montage being so successfully utilised in their research. To have images generated by Auto-Montage that are so exceptional as to be worthy of being exhibited is a great testament to its capabilities and is an excellent way of showing any microscopists working with three-dimensional samples what incredible imaging power this system could bring to their research.”

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Professor Timothy G. Bromage, Department of Anthropology, Hunter College, CUNY, 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA.

Syncroscopy is a world-leading developer and supplier of innovative digital imaging solutions for optical microscopy applications. Syncroscopy's innovative brands include Auto-Montage for extended depth of focus three-dimensional imaging, Montage Explorer for the creation of the highest resolution, perfectly focused images ever seen and the SyncroCOOL camera range for cooled colour image capture. Syncroscopy's systems are used by more than 2,000 organisations internationally and include many of the world's major research institutes.

Syncroscopy, founded in 1998 is a division of the Synoptics Group based in Cambridge, UK. The Group’s other divisions, Syngene and Synbiosis, specialise in digital imaging solutions for molecular biology and microbial applications respectively. Synoptics currently employs 55 people in its UK and subsidiary operation in Frederick, USA. The Group has profitable revenue of almost $10 million and continues to grow rapidly.

Funded by the National Science Foundation and the State of New York, AMICA (Analytical Microscopy and Imaging Centre in Anthropology) is part of New York based Hunter College. AMICA is the site of a unique facility in the US, which provides a multi-disciplinary research environment in the anthropological sciences. This is complimented by undergraduate and graduate training, for research on the biology and culture of living, historical, and fossil human populations, as well as on the ecology and evolutionary biology of living and fossil primates.