Analytical Imaging Masterclass
Introduction
If a picture paints a thousand words, what could we achieve with hundreds or thousands of pictures?!
Welcome to the world of analytical imaging. In this Masterclass series of webinars, we’ll look at why taking pictures – lots of pictures – of the particles in your materials can help you understand why they behave the way they do, and how to optimize them.
We’ll start by looking at why particle shape and size information is useful. What can it tell you about your material’s behavior? We’ll look at how analytical imaging differs from manual microscopy, in terms of the number of particles we can measure, how we extract the images of individual particles, and how we build up statistically significant distributions of size and shape parameters.
Demo at your desk
Once you’ve got the basics, in the next session we’ll show you the analytical imaging systems in action – direct from our lab! Our applications specialist will take you through the measurement process – all the way from preparing a sample and running the measurement, through to evaluating the results and demonstrating the software features that help you to interpret the data from all those particle images.
Method Development
In the third webinar in the series, we’ll delve a little deeper into how to get the best out of analytical imaging measurements. Method development for image analysis, like many techniques, starts with the question you’re trying to answer or the problem you want to solve. This guides how you present the sample to the instrument and how you disperse the sample. It will also determine how much material you need to measure, and what information you need to get from the results. This webinar will take you through the process, from sample dispersion to instrument settings and results reporting.
Adding chemistry
Finally, we mentioned earlier that image analysis is often used alongside other technologies. In fact, in our Morphologi 4-ID we combine image analysis with Raman Spectroscopy in a technique called Morphologically-Directed Raman Spectroscopy (MDRS). This adds the ability to chemically identify individual particles alongside all the size and shape parameters. MDRS can be used to assess bioequivalence, to identify how active ingredients behave in a blend, to identify contaminants and many more applications.
So, join us for one or all of the series to see what analytical imaging can do for you, brush up on the basics, learn how to get the best out analytical imaging, and let us introduce you to Morphologically-Directed Raman Spectroscopy. We hope to see you there!