Re: [micro-manager-general] confocal upgrade suggestion

[Philip Ershler]

Have you contacted Nikon Sales Department yet. That should give you an idea of cost. 

Best, Phil

On Feb 19, 2020, at 4:58 PM, Yanfei Jiang <yanf....@gmail.com> wrote:



Hi Pavak

As I understand, multi point options are usually more expensive, right? how much am I expecting for such a system? thanks

Yanfei

On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 8:31 PM PAVAK SHAH <pa...@ucla.edu> wrote:

Are you limiting consideration to a point scan confocal? 

There are lots of multi-point options from Nikon and third party integrators including spinning disk confocals based on the Yokogawa CSU-X1 and W1, the Andor Dragonfly, the Crest Optics X-Light, and others. Also similar options based on analog SIM (no need for multiple images or computational post processing for resolution improvement) such as the Yokogawa CSU-SoRa and the Visitech iSIM (I include the SoRa for completeness but personally found it to be optically inferior to the iSIM when demoed, disclaimer: I used VisiTech's first commercial iSIM as a postdoc and have since bought one for my own lab).

For live imaging of nearly any sort or cases where speed or gentleness is desired, a spinning disk or multi-point confocal is very much worth considering over a point scan system.

Best,

Pavak

On Fri, Feb 14, 2020, 3:24 PM Yanfei Jiang <yanf....@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear MM community,

 Our lab is considering upgrade a nikon Ti2E microscope to have confocal capability. I am wondering what options do I have besides Nikon. I saw Thorlabs has one, any other companies? Thanks a lot

Yanfei Jiang

_______________________________________________
micro-manager-general mailing list
micro-mana...@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/micro-manager-general

_______________________________________________
micro-manager-general mailing list
micro-mana...@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/micro-manager-general

_______________________________________________
micro-manager-general mailing list
micro-mana...@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/micro-manager-general