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

[Yanfei J. <yan...@gm...>]

Hi Pavak
As I understand, multi point options are usually more expensive, right? how
much am I expecting for such a system? thanks

Yanfei

On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 8:31 PM PAVAK SHAH <pa...@uc...> wrote:

> 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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