Confocal Microscopy

Our confocal microscopes offer several advantages over conventional wide-field microscopes:

• greater control of depth of field,
• elimination of background information away from the focal plane
• collection of serial optical sections from thick specimens

We have five confocal microscopes at the GIGA Cell Imaging core facility:

Nikon A1R with 4 lasers, timelapse

Nikon A1R technical sheet  | Nikon A1R instruction manual

Leica SP5 with 7 lasers 

Leica SP5 technical sheet

Leica Stellaris 8 with White Laser, timelaspe (440nm to 790nm)

Leica Stellaris 8 technical sheet