Olympus Spinning Disk
Description
Location: MTZ, 2nd floor; room A 20.028
The Olympus spinning disc microscope is designed for fast "real-time" confocal imaging of living samples. Furthermore that system is especially designed for mouse intravital microscopy. The microscope is also capable for brightfield including contrast techniques like DIC, darkfield and polarized light.
Suitable for
Mitosis in C. Elegans embryos
- Living / fixed samples
- Fluorescence or transmitted light
- Intravital microscopy
| Microscope Stand | |
|---|---|
| Stand orientation: | Inverted, Olympus IX 83 |
| Condenser: | Motorized, 0,55 N.A. DIC prism for 10x 20x, 30x, 40x |
| Hardware Autofocus: | ZDC |
| Microscope Details | |
|---|---|
| Objectives |
Olympus U Plan S Apo 4x / 0.16 |
| XY stage | Motorized (Prior) |
| Z focus device | Manual |
| Additional Z focus device | Piezo stage insert (100µm) |
| Illumination |
Transmitted light (HAL 100) |
| Fluorescent filter cubes |
GFP (EX 470/20, BS 485, 518/45EM) |
| Emission filter wheel |
Quad (440/40; 521/21; 607/34; 700/45) |
| Detection |
iXon Ultra 897 EMCCD |
| CSU | Yokogawa CSU-X1 |
| Computer | |
|---|---|
| RAM: | 4 GB |
| Grafic card: | NVIDIA Quadro 2000 |
| Software: | Andor iQ 3.2 |
| Display: | 27'' |
| More information | |
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| Incubation | Stage incubator (Pecon heating insert for 35 mm dishes) |
| Additional Equpiment | Piezo stage, heating plate and controler, heating lamp, anesthesia unit, operating area |
| Inventory list | 00102524/0 |
| Date of installation | August 2013, last upgrade Jan 2015 |
| Manufacturer | Olympus / Andor |