{"id":52,"date":"2015-11-05T14:37:56","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T14:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/?page_id=52"},"modified":"2022-04-13T16:27:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T16:27:17","slug":"confocal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/confocal\/","title":{"rendered":"Confocal Microscopy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: justify\"><i>What is confocal microscopy and how can it help me in\u00a0my research?<\/i><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Confocal laser scanning microscopy<span style=\"color: #222222\">\u00a0is an optical imaging technique for increasing optical resolution and contrast of a micrograph by means of adding a spatial pinhole placed at the\u00a0<\/span>confocal<span style=\"color: #222222\">\u00a0plane of the lens to eliminate out-of-focus light. By sequentially moving the plane of focus via a motorised specimen\u00a0stage, images can be built up on a layer by layer basis, thereby enabling 3D\u00a0reconstruction of the sample.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-style: normal\"><em>Find out more<\/em>:<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leica-microsystems.com\/science-lab\/topics\/confocal-microscopy\/\">Leica Science Lab<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microscopyu.com\/articles\/confocal\/index.html\">Nikon Microscopy U<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/olympus.magnet.fsu.edu\/primer\/techniques\/confocal\/index.html\">Olympus Microscopy Resource Center<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/zeiss-campus.magnet.fsu.edu\/referencelibrary\/laserconfocal.html\">Zeiss Online Campus<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify\">Our confocal systems:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/research-equipment\/equipment\/view\/confocal-laser-scanning-microscope-with-super-resolution-capability\">Zeiss LSM 880 confocal microscope<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/research-equipment\/equipment\/view\/confocal-laser-scanning-microscope-with-upright-and-inverted-stands\">Leica SP2 confocal microscope<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is confocal microscopy and how can it help me in\u00a0my research? Confocal laser scanning microscopy\u00a0is an optical imaging technique for increasing optical resolution and contrast of a micrograph by means of adding a spatial pinhole placed at the\u00a0confocal\u00a0plane of the lens to eliminate out-of-focus light. By sequentially moving the plane of focus via a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":908,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-52","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1611,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions\/1611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}