iCys User Guide

May 6, 2005 iCys Cytometric Analysis Software Application Overview
Activating Wells or Scan Areas
The Select Active Well button allows you to choose specific wells or scan areas
for data analysis or rescanning. This allows you to rescan a subset of the wells or
scan areas on a carrier.
For example, if you have a 4 slide carrier, you may want to rescan some of the
scan areas. Following is a sample of what the Scan Area Setup window might
look like:
➣ To activate wells (or scan areas):
❍ Click Select Active Well
✧ To activate an individual well, click on it with the mouse.
✧ To activate multiple wells, hold the Ctrl key and click on the individual
wells you want to select.
❑ If your system does not have the optional AutoFocus feature, do not select scan
areas in multiple petri dishes. When scanning a petri dish carrier without
AutoFocus, you must move the objective turret to the full downward position
when moving between petri dishes (or the objective may hit the side of a petri
dish).
Select Active Well can be used in two ways, as follows:
❍ Data Analysis—When you have specific wells activated, the currently open
scattergrams and histograms in the Workspace reflect the data only from
those wells.
❍ Rescanning—To rescan activated wells, select Scan Only Active Wells ( )
from the Scan section of the task bar before starting a scan. When you rescan
the carrier only those wells you selected are scanned.
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