Re: [micro-manager-general] confocal upgrade suggestion
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From: Yanfei J. <yan...@gm...> - 2020-02-19 23:57:32
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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 >> _______________________________________________ >> micro-manager-general mailing list >> mic...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/micro-manager-general >> > _______________________________________________ > micro-manager-general mailing list > mic...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/micro-manager-general > |