Zeiss Axio-Observer


Partner lab price : 5.36 €/hour
Public and private lab price: 22.32 €/hour
Associated technologies:
  • 2D imaging
  • 3D imaging
  • Videomicroscopy

  • Brief description:
    Motorized widefield inverted microscope with an incubator ("Videomicroscope") for timelapse imaging. The workstation is controlled through ZEN software.
    For epifluorescence and transmission imaging (brightfield, Phase and PLASDIC techniques).
    Multidimensional acquisition (X,Y, Z, lambda & t)
    Objectives:
    5x Plan NEOFLUAR 0.16 NA PH1
    10X A-Plan 0.25 NA PH1
    20X Plan NEOFLUAR 0.4 NA PH2 Korr + PLASDIC
    40X A-Plan 0.5 NA PH2 PLASDIC
    40x Plan NEOFLUAR 0.6 NA PH2 Korr
    63X Plan Apochromat 1.4 NA oil

    Detector:
    1 Hamamatsu ORCA-Flash4 monochrome camera
    (2048 x 2048 pixels, 6.5µm pixel size)

    BSL1 environment
    Illumination:
    XCite 120LED controlled by Zen for episcopic illumination
    100W tungsten filament bulb for diascopic illumination

    Motorization:
    Binocular tube, X, Y and Z stage, fluorescence filter set turret, objective turret.

    Fluorescence filter sets:
    Hoechst
    FITC
    Cy3
    Cy5
    CFP
    Available acquisition techniques:
    Any 2 or 3D acquisition along time (ranging from a few hours to a few weeks) with any compatible supports such as microscope slide, petri dish or culture plate, with both fluorescence & transmission modes (brightfield, phase contrast, PLASDIC).
    Mosaic acquisition/reconstruction of a full well in both fluorescence & transmission modes.

    User-defined protocols.
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