Confocal Spinning Disk Microscopes (SDM)
BIC facility is equipped with Confocal Spinning Disk Microscopes offering various configurations and capabilities to cover a wide range of imaging needs and research applications.
Nikon CrEST X Light V3 Spinning Disk.
Photo: Anna Kouznetsova
Nikon CrEST X-Light V3 Spinning Disk
OBS! The Silicon objective (25x) is damaged and will be send to repair.
The Nikon CrEST X-Light V3 spinning disk confocal enables fast imaging with confocal resolution, supporting live and fixed tissue samples. The system can detect a wide range of fluorochromes, featuring LED illumination from ultra-violet 340nm to 635nm and laser options from 405nm to near-infrared 748nm (for detection of AF750 or Cy7).
Specifications
- Stage inserts for: slides/multiwell plates/35mm dishes
- Lasers: 405, 446, 477, 518, 545, 637, 748 nm
- LEDs: 340nm, 380nm, and 420-750nm
- Fluorescent channels: from blue (DAPI) to near infra-red (Cy7)
- Objectives: 4x Air, 10x Air, 20x Air, 20x LWD Air, 25x Silicone and 60x Oil
- Acquisition Software: NIS Elements
- Special Features:
- JOBS module for automatization of complex acquisition pipelines
- Possibility of tiling and automatic imaging at several positions (including focus maps and stitching)
- Black climate chamber with temperature, humidity and CO2 controls for live cell imaging
- 20x extra-long working distance objective (WD=2.3 mm)
- fast widefield imaging (including Fura2 Ca+), confocal imaging and/or volumetric (XYZ) imaging
- NIS.ai Artificial Intelligence module for noise removal