"Real-time multi-colour 3D/4D microscopy"
Spinning Disk Confocal Microscope
Spinning Disk Confocal Microscopy (SDCM) allows faster and more efficient 2D sectioning of live 3D samples compared to conventional Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopes.
- Olympus IX81 inverted microscope mounted with 4x, 10x, 20x, 40x, 60x, 100x objective lenses
- TwinCam module with Andor Ixon-897 EM-CCD and Andor Zyla (4.2) sCMOS cameras
- Yokogawa CSU-X1 confocal scan-head (spinning disk) unit
- FRAP-PA module for photobleaching (FRAP) and photoactivation experiments (PA)
- 4 laser lines (405nm, 488nm, 561nm, 638nm)
- Enviromental chamber to control CO2 levels and temperature
- Acquisition software: Andor IQ3.6
- Live cell imaging in Brightfield mode is also possible