Re: [micro-manager-general] confocal upgrade suggestion

[PAVAK S. <pa...@uc...>]

Are you limiting consideration to a point scan confocal?

There are lots of multi-point options from Nikon and third party
integrators including spinning disk confocals based on the Yokogawa CSU-X1
and W1, the Andor Dragonfly, the Crest Optics X-Light, and others. Also
similar options based on analog SIM (no need for multiple images or
computational post processing for resolution improvement) such as the
Yokogawa CSU-SoRa and the Visitech iSIM (I include the SoRa for
completeness but personally found it to be optically inferior to the iSIM
when demoed, disclaimer: I used VisiTech's first commercial iSIM as a
postdoc and have since bought one for my own lab).

For live imaging of nearly any sort or cases where speed or gentleness is
desired, a spinning disk or multi-point confocal is very much worth
considering over a point scan system.

Best,
Pavak

On Fri, Feb 14, 2020, 3:24 PM Yanfei Jiang <yan...@gm...> wrote:

> Dear MM community,
>
>  Our lab is considering upgrade a nikon Ti2E microscope to have confocal
> capability. I am wondering what options do I have besides Nikon. I saw
> Thorlabs has one, any other companies? Thanks a lot
>
> Yanfei Jiang
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