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Counting colonies
Note The picture shows the Measure tab in Measurement Mode for a Pour Plate batch – the Manual
Count, Exclude Region and Remove Last Exclusion buttons do not appear for Spiral Plate
batches. The Adjust button is only enabled after you have pressed Test Measure Plate and the
Remove Last Exclusion is only enabled if you have placed an exclusion region on the image.
To display the Measure tab in Measurement mode:
Press:
Counting the colonies on a plate automatically
To count the colonies on a plate automatically:
Press
The results will be added to the Results table (see Working with results , page 77, for details)
and shown in the Last Measurement Results panel:
For a Spiral Plate batch, the Last Measurement Results will also show the concentration:
See also:
Counting colonies , on the previous page, for a summary of how to modify the way
automatic colony counts are performed and how to carry out colony counts using
other methods.
Exclude regions
Note You cannot place exclude regions on Spiral Plate batches.
On occasions, you may want to avoid counting colonies on part of a plate because of some
problem with it. One way of doing this is to create one or more exclude regions, which will be
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