Nikon Inverted Imaging System with Yokogawa CSU-W1 Spinning Disk Confocal
A unique, fully integrated microscopy system, the first of its kind in North America, offers:
- Confocal imaging: using a 7 laser line ZIVA light engine coupled with a Yokogawa CSU-W1 spinning disk confocal head.
- Widefield fluorescence imaging: 5 wavelengths of LED excitation from UV-near IR
Automatic Deconvolution and Clarify/Denoise/Restore “AI”: for crisp, stunning fluorescent images. - Brightfield Colour Imaging: LED illumination produces crisp images with perfect colour reproduction and even, flat background.
- Full Slide Scanning: is easy to set up using NIS Elements
- Chlorophyll and Reflectance Imaging Modes: For speciality samples such as plants, algae, hard surfaces, biomaterials, and cells grown on opaque backgrounds.
- Live cell imaging: Available stage top incubator offers heat, humidity and CO2 control for single dishes or chamber slides. The instrument is housed in a level 2 Biosuite featuring a CO2 incubator and biosafety cabinet, as well as a small workbench for sample prep.
- Fully Automatic Operation with NIS Elements AR: Advanced Research package featuring automatic focus, large image scanning, mark and relocate sites of interest, create 3D Z-stacks, film time series images of dynamic processes.
- Full NIS Elements GA3 Analysis suite: Available on remote, networked workstation for 3D rendering and animations as well as advanced image analysis in all dimensions. (See our Image Analysis Page for details)
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