LEICA SP1 INVERTED CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE (located in the HSRB)

Microscope

-FITC, Rhodamine and DAPI filter sets on a Leica DM IRBE inverted microscope

-Optics for differential interference contrast (Nomarski)
-Objectives- 10x immersion, 20x oil, 40x oil, 63x water, 100x oil

-Harvard Apparatus temperature controller for open perfusion micro-incubator for 35 mm culture dishes

-Can accommodate slides or culture dishes

Lasers

-Titanium-sapphire multiphoton

-Argon with a 488 nm excitation line

-Solid state diode with a 561 nm excitation line

-Helium-Neon with a 633 nm excitation line

-Spectrophotometer for continuous selectable wavelength bands

-Scans 5 channels simultaneously or sequentially

-Optical sectioning capability

Computer System

-Windows XP running on a 2.70 GHZ Pentium processor w/ 95 GB hard drive, 1.0 GB RAM

-Leica software stores images as TIFF files, which can be copied to a CD or USB flash drive

-Workstation available with Leica Lite software

PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE TRAINING DOCUMENT FOR THE SP1 INVERTED CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE (PDF, 1.3 M)