Companies Pen Software Agreement

!%Carl Zeiss%! of Jena, Germany, and !%3969%%Digital Surf%! of Besançon, France, have signed an agreement that enables the former company to provide the latter’s ConfoMap surface imaging and analysis software for use with Zeiss’ confocal microscopes. The software includes numerous analytical studies, including geometric and functional. It can be extended by adding modules for advanced analysis of surface texture, dimensions, grains and particles, 3-D Fourier and surface evolution. It can be used with Zeiss’ Axio CSM 700 confocal microscope, its LSM 700 confocal laser scanning microscope and with other compound microscopes for topographical research.