Livescan SFC Specifications
| Scan head manufacturer: | For Nikon by Prairie Technologies |
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| 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 |