Conventional Microscopy Mode

• Bright Field
• Nomarski DIC
• Fluorescence

Laser Scanning Mode

• Argon Laser 458, 488, 514 nm
• HeNe Laser 543 nm
• Tunable Ti-Sapphire IR Pulse Laser 730-950 nm for 2-Photon illumination
• 2 PMT Detectors
• 2 Non-Descanned PMT Detectors
• 1 Transmitted Light PMT Detector

Imaging Features

• Motorized stage:  XY movements for tiling, Z for optical sectioning
• Single or multitract image collection
• 8 or 12 bit pixel depth
• 128, 256, 1024, 2048 pixel frame
• Ratio Imaging
• 3D projection from image stack, depth code, stereo pairs, red and green stereo images 
• Multi Time Macro Time Series control
• Physiology Macro
• LSM 4.2 on Windows XP Platform

Configuration

• View a diagram of the LSM510 upright configuration

Dyes

• View the fluorescent dyes available for confocal microscopes

Confocal Microscope Images

• View confocal images shot with the microscopes available in the core facility

Objectives

• View a list of available objectives for confocal microscopy

Last updated: 7/1/08