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Nikon LiveScan SFC Confocal Microscope System

Livescan SFC Specifications

Scan head manufacturer:

For Nikon by Prairie Technologies

Scanning technology:

32 illumination points swept across the field by fast galvanometer and piezo controlled mirrors. 3 pinhole scan modes and 4 slit scan modes.

Illumination and detector apertures:

30µm, 45µm, and 60µm pinholes. 22µm, 35µm, 50µm and 70µm slits.

Scan speed:

Variable (user defined); up to 1200Hz

Lasers/illumination source:

Solid state diode lasers at 442, 488, 561, 643 available
Air cooled gas lasers at 488, 514, 568, 647 available
Optional 2 optical fiber output from laser launch available

Beam attenuation:

Acusto-optical tuneable filter (AOTF)

Laser shutter:

Acusto-optical tuneable filter (AOTF) and mechanical shutters

Laser safety:

Nikon C1-Y-TT laser safe trinocular head and C1-T-SM laser safety shutter for TE2000

Scan head mirrors emission filters:

Easily user interchangeable. Appropriate dichroics and emission filter provided with each laser line specified, dichroic and emission filter specs supplied upon request.

Acquisition software:

Nikon NIS-Elements

Z-Axis control:

Nikon's attachable ERFA, TE2000E2 microscopes, piezoelectric z-axis controller

Deconvolution:

NIS-Elements plugin: 2D real time deconvolution, or plugins for 3D blind deconvolution

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