CULTERE OBERSERVATION APPARATUS AND CULTURE OBSERVATION SYSTEM

摘要

An object is to lessen a troublesome checking task during cell culturing. A culture observation apparatus (1) of the present invention includes: a light source unit (3) that radiates illumination light onto the inside of a transparent culture vessel (C) from a side surface of the culture vessel (C) ; an image acquisition unit (4) that images, of the illumination light radiated from the light source unit (3), scattered light emitted from the inside of the culture vessel (C) to acquire images; and a transmission unit (5) that sends the images acquired by the image acquisition unit (4) to the outside. The image acquisition unit (4) includes a sensor array (7) that has a plurality of sensors (8) arranged in at least one line over approximately the entire length in one direction of a bottom surface of the culture vessel (C) and a movement mechanism (9) that relatively moves the sensor array (7) and the culture vessel (C) in a direction intersecting the array direction of the sensors (8) and extending along the bottom surface.