What it's good for
- Low magnification observation
- Brightfield (color)
- Darkfield
- Fluorescence
- Obtaining images of:
- intact organs
- whole sections
- Field view from 55mm to 1.74mm
What it's NOT good for
- High magnification
- Multipoint timelapse
- Low contrast brightfield samples
- Low fluorescence
Principles of operation
Fluorescent light from a mercury lamp is filtered for excitation and emission.
Technical Information
- Microscope Base: MVX10
- Color CCD camera
- 4 fluorescent color channels:
- DAPI
- FITC
- Texas Red
- Cy5.5
- Color brightfield
- Microscope Objectives:
- .63x
- 2x