OptiCount

• OptiCount is a user friendly software for the quantification of phytoplankton, zooplankton and bacterioplankton and even blood cells, particles and other things that cannot be counted automatically.
• Organisms can be freely defined (genus and/or species names).
• Support for counting unicellular and colonial organisms.
• Individual cell volumes can be calculated from standard geometric objects or using fixed volumes. Volume biomass is automatically converted into fresh weight biomass.
• Opticount automatically converts counts for commonly used counting procedures into cell concentrations. You may count organisms in counting chambers or concentrated on filter surfaces using five different methods:
  • 1. lanes through the center,
  • 2. randomly selected rectangular fields,
  • 3. randomly selected circular fields,
  • 4. percent area, or
  • 5. using a blood counting chamber.
• Just use a computer keyboard near to your microscope instead of a mechanic counting device.
• Count single cells and/or colonies.
• Species labels and actual counts are displayed.
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Keywords: plankton, enumeration, quantification, counter, counting, Utermoehl, Utermöhl, chamber