Table 2.

Comparison of the IncuCyte ZOOM® platform with other commonly used techniques for phagocytosis quantification.

	IncuCyte ZOOM®	Spectrofluorometry	Confocal microscopy	Flow cytometry	Imaging flow cytometry
Sensitivity	+++	++	+++	++	++
Magnification	++	N/A	+++	N/A	+++
Cell viability	+++	+++	+++	+	+
Real time kinetics	+++	+++	N/A	N/A	N/A
Low cell numbers	+++	+	+++	++	+++
Potential for operator bias	+	+	+++	+	+