Group Confocal

Confocal fluorescence microscopy is an advanced imaging technique that enhances the resolution and clarity of fluorescence microscopy by eliminating out-of-focus light. It is widely used in our research to obtain high-resolution, three-dimensional images of colloidal suspension labeled with fluorescent dyes. Our group confocal is the simplest of our confocal imaging systems we have. It is coupled to an iX73 Olympus microscope. Like all our confocal scopes, beam steering is achieved with a glavo-resonant mirror combination with a 12 kHz resonant mirror for this system. A 50 cubic micrometer with a 0.2 micrometer voxel image can be acquired at a maximum of 46 fps ( ~ 11 s per volume ).