{"id":274,"date":"2015-11-09T13:13:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T13:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/?p=274"},"modified":"2022-04-13T16:27:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T16:27:04","slug":"new-confocal-laser-scanning-microscope-with-super-resolution-capability-for-biosi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/new-confocal-laser-scanning-microscope-with-super-resolution-capability-for-biosi\/","title":{"rendered":"EQUIPMENT: New State-of-the-Art Confocal Microscope with Super-Resolution Capability."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"image\">\n<p><div id=\"attachment_275\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/492\/2015\/11\/DSC_0459.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-275\" class=\"wp-image-275 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/492\/2015\/11\/DSC_0459-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0459\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/492\/2015\/11\/DSC_0459-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/492\/2015\/11\/DSC_0459-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-275\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: The old and the new: The new Zeiss LSM 880 Airyscan confocal system (right) adjacent to the old Leica TCS SP2 confocal (left) (BIOSI 2; E\/0.03)<\/p><\/div><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The BIOSI Bioimaging Research Hub has recently expanded its imaging toolbox with a new, state-of-the-art confocal microscope system, that was purchased through generous funding by the Research Infrastructure Fund (Lead Applicant: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/people\/view\/81149-dewitte-walter\">Dr Walter Dewitte<\/a>). The system, a top-of-the-range Zeiss LSM 880 upright confocal microscope, features the advanced Airyscan super-resolution detection module which provides a 1.7x gain in resolution in all three dimensions compared to conventional confocal optics. The system also supports advanced fluorescence techniques including <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/fcs\/\">FCS<\/a> (fluorescence correlation microscopy) and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/flim\/\">FLIM<\/a> (fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) \u2013 the FLIM module will be installed during the first week of December. Further details <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/2015\/12\/16\/news-picoquant-flim-module-installed-on-new-confocal\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">AJH<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Find out more:<\/em><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/researchequipment\/equipment\/confocal-laser-scanning-microscope-4\/\">Zeiss LSM 880 Airyscan confocal with FCS &amp; FLIM<\/a>: Research equipment database<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeiss.com\/microscopy\/en_us\/products\/confocal-microscopes\/lsm-800-with-airyscan.html#introduction\">The LSM880 confocal microscope with airyscan<\/a>: Zeiss pages with product information, tutorials and application notes<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sGTNBXq8omg\">Zeiss Webinar:<\/a> LSM880 with airyscan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"image\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"image\"><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BIOSI Bioimaging Research Hub has recently expanded its imaging toolbox with a new, state-of-the-art confocal microscope system, that was purchased through generous funding by the Research Infrastructure Fund (Lead Applicant: Dr Walter Dewitte). The system, a top-of-the-range Zeiss LSM 880 upright confocal microscope, features the advanced Airyscan super-resolution detection module which provides a 1.7x [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":908,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equipment","tag-equipment"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1968,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/1968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}