equipment:

light and electronic-light microscopy

• Olympus FV500 Laser Scanning Confocal System
     ( Click here for instruction manual [361kb] )
• Four channel fluoresence and one transmitted
• Laser Illumination
• 405NM Laser Diode
• Argon Ion: 457 nm, 488 nm, 514nm
• Green He/Ne: 543.5 nm
• Red He/Ne: 633 nm
• Optical Platform: Olympus IX-81
• Lenses:10x / 0.2 NA, 20x / 0.70 NA, 40x / 1.30 NA, 60x / 1.40 NA, 100x / 1.40 NA
• Epi-Fluorescence Illumination
• 100 W Halogen Illuminator



• Olympus IX-81 Deconvolution
• Lenses: 10x / 0.2 NA, 20x / 0.70 NA, 40x / 1.30 NA, 60x / 1.40 NA, 100x / 1.40 NA
• Epi-Fluorescence Illumination
• Photometric HQ cooled CCD camera
• SlideBook Deconvolution software
• Dual AMD2400 PC with 4GB RAM



• Nikon PCM 2000 Laser Scanning Confocal System
     ( Click here for instruction manual [361kb] )
• Dual Laser Illumination
• Argon Ion: 457 nm, 488 nm, 514nm
• He/Ne: 543.5 nm
• Transmitted light detector
• Optical Platform: Nikon Optiphot 2
• Lenses:10x / 0.2 NA, 20x / 0.70 NA, 40x / 0.60 NA, 60x / 1.40 NA, 100x / 1.30 NA
• Reflection Fluorescence Illumination
• 100 W Halogen Illuminator
• Digital Interface:
• 200mHz Pentium Pro
• 64 MB DIMM RAM
• 4GB UW SCSI hard drive
• Adaptec 2940UW SCSI controller
• Intel 10/100Mb Fast ethernet (Cat 5 networked)
• 19" Viewsonic monitor



• Olympus AX-70 Wide-field Multi-mode Microscope
• Imaging Modes for both transmitted and reflected light: Brightfield, Darkfield, Phase Contrast, DIC, Polarized light, and epi-fluorescence
• Lenses: 2x / 0.1NA, 4x / - , 10x / 0.2NA, 20x / 0.70NA, 40x / 0.85NA, 60x / 1.4NA, 100x / 1.35NA (Iris)
• Illumination: 100 w Halogen, 105 w Hg lamp
• Image Recording:
• Roper 4k cooled CCD(2048 x 2048 x 12-bit)
• Kodak DCS760 6 MegaPixel RGB
• 35mm camera
• Javelin CCD video camera
• Digital Capture Interface



• Nikon Optiphot Photo system
• Imaging Modes: Brightfiled, Darkfiled, Phase Contrast
• Lenses: 4x / - , 10x / 0.2 NA, 20x / 0.70 NA, 40x / 0.60 NA, 100x / 1.30 NA
• Illumination: 100 w Halogen
• Image Recording:
• 35mm camera
• Javelin CCD camera
• Digital Capture Interface

• Olympus SZX-12 Stereoscope System
• Imaging Modes: Brightfiled, Darkfiled, Oblique
• Lenses: 0.5x and 1.4x
• Magnification range:
• Illumination: Trans-illumination, fiberoptic epi-illumination
• Image Recording:
• Roper 4k cooled CCD(2048 x 2048 x 12-bit)
• Kodak DCS760 6 MegaPixel RGB
• 35 mm camera
• Javelin CCD camera
• Digital Capture Interface