Imaging Systems

Used for observation and measurement of various biological and biophysical effects in individual cells. Fluorescent and bright field image acquisition is performed, followed by image processing, image analysis, and the computation of the results in a wide variety of biological research areas.

Inverted Fluorescence microscope system:

• A fully motorized Olympus Cell^R IX81 microscope system
• Olympus Cell^R MT20 illumination system
• High sensitivity digital CCD camera (Hamamatsu)
• High precision motorized XY stage
• Optigrid real-time controller board for Cell^R system optimizing signal to noise ratio
• LIS incubator with temperature and gas control
• High speed and large memory imaging computer system
• A collection of advanced image analysis, processing, mathematical, and statistical software packages

Upright Fluorescence microscope system:

• BX61 microscope
• High precision motorized XY stage
• High sensitivity digital CCD camera
• High speed and large memory computer system