Inverted Confocal

  • Inverted confocal microscope
  • Objectives: dry: 10x 20x, immersion: 40x 100x oil; 63x water
  • Spectrometric imaging with four freely selectable emission settings
  • line and frame sequential scanning

SP2 NT

 Fura-2 recording

i) Pancreatic acinar cells loaded with acridine orange. (ii) Intracellular Calcium signals monitored with Fura-2. (iii) Human pancreatic duct cells loaded with calcein (Ivana Novak, unpubl.)

 

Laser lines

Beam splitters

Emission

Detectors

351, 364 nm UV

DD488/568, TD 488/568/647

freely

 

458,488,496,

514,568,647nm

TR 30/70, RSP 500

substratum

selectable emission ranges 

4 PMT


Alexander Schulz, - last update:27 May 2012
Inverted Point-scanning Confocal
SP/NT UV, Leica Microsystems

 

Location

Nørre Campus, August Krogh building,
Universitetsparken 13, 6. Floor, room 645

 

Typical applications

Live imaging of cells and simple tissues, co-localization of proteins and fluorochromes, intracellular ion concentrations, emission scans, xyzt protocols

 

Consultation

 

 

Training and problem reporting