LEICA TCS SP UPRIGHT CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE (located in HSRB)

Microsope

- FITC and Rhodamine filter sets on a Leica DM RXE upright microscope

- Optics for differential interference contrast (Nomarski)

- Available Objectives- 5x, 10x, 20x dry,20x oil, 40x oil, 40x dipping,63x water, 100x oil

- Olympus digital camera for those not requiring confocal

Lasers

- 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 4 detection channels simultaneously or sequentially

- Optical sectioning capability

Computer System

- Windows NT running on a 300 MHz pentium processor w/ 60 GB hard drive, 1.0 GB RAM

- Leica software- stores images as TIFF files

- Roxio CD writer


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