Confocal microscopy

Our confocal microscopes offer several advantages over conventional wide-field microscopes:

• greater control of depth of field,
• elimination of background information away from the focal plane
• collection of serial optical sections from thick specimens

We have five confocal microscopes at the GIGA Cell Imaging core facility:

Olympus FV1000 with 6 lasers (Olympus FV1000 technical sheet)

Nikon A1R with 4 lasers and timelapse (Nikon A1R technical sheet , Nikon A1R instruction manual)

Leica SP5 with 7 lasers (Leica SP5 technical sheet)

Leica Stellaris 8 with White Laser (440nm to 790nm) (Leica Stellaris 8 technical sheet)

High Resolution Confocal:

Zeiss LSM 880 Airyscan 1 with 7 lasers, timelapse (Zeiss LSM 880 technical sheet , Zeiss LSM 880 instruction manual)

Zeiss LSM 980 Airyscan 2 with 4 lasers, timelapse (Zeiss LSM 980 technical sheet , Zeiss LSM 980 instruction manual)