Leica TCSNT confocal microscope

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Advanced Imaging Facility, Room S443, Anderson Stuart Building
Phone: +61 2 9351 3930

A Leica TCSNT Confocal Microscope System was acquired in 1998. The purchase was managed by Professor C.D. Shorey, then Head of the Department of Anatomy and Histology and the Institute assisted in the fund-raising. Value $500,000. Management of the microscope passed to the Bosch Institute in 2001, by agreement with the Department of Anatomy & Histology.

Software
TCS NT version 1.6.587

Excitation
Argon-krypton laser (488, 568, 647 nm lines)
UV laser (351 nm line)

Emission
4 detectors collect wavelength bands of 380-420nm, 500-550nm, 585-615nm and over 665nm

Enables
Imaging of fluorescence or reflectance
Single or multiple-channel image collection
Single xy and xz scans
3D (x, y, z) and 4D (x, y, z, t) datasets
3D rendering
Fluorescence intensity measurement

Network
CD
Floppy 3.5" 1.44MB
MO disc