Light microscopes for neuroscience from Olympus America
I visited the Olympus America booth on Monday. Olympus was demonstrating three high performance, all-in-one microscope systems that streamline live-cell, fluorescence and confocal imaging, enabling researchers to focus on their data and images rather than on the complexities of operating high-end microscope rigs. The three compact, self-contained systems – the VivaView incubator microscope system, FluoView FV10i confocal microscope system and FSX100 fluorescence microscopy system – are designed to remove the complexities of setting up and using advanced microscopes. Their excellent optical performance, small footprint and ease of use combine to ensure that users can concentrate on their research instead of on their instruments.
Olympus now offers its latest innovations designed to expand the frontiers of two-photon confocal microscopy, with three newly introduced accessories that enhance the capabilities of the company’s leading FluoView FV1000-MPE multiphoton system. The developments include a new Laser Sharing System, Dual-Port SIM Scanner, and Multi-Point SIM scanner software.
In a ground-breaking move, Olympus America has launched the first commercial CARS (coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering) microscope. Kevin Jia, Product Manager, Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopes, explained to me the principles and applications of this new instrument in a video interview.
The new CARS module was developed by Olympus in close cooperation with Dr. Stolow and the NRC. For more information, contact Kevin Jia, Ph.D., Olympus America Inc., 3500 Corporate Parkway, Center Valley PA 18034-0610; phone 1-484-896-5090; email yiwei.jia@olympus.com; or visit www.olympusamerica.com/CARS .
For researchers attending the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Chicago on Monday, Oct 19 at 2PM, Ji-Xin Cheng, Ph.D, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry at Purdue University, Indiana, spoke on the subject of CARS microscopy in the Olympus Booth #1031.
View the videos>>>
- Part 1: Kevin introduces the new Olympus CARS microscope
- Part 2: Kevin describes an application of CARS