Specifications:
- Single- or dual-side laser light sheet illumination
- Scanned laser light sheet to produce homogenous illumination across the field-of-view (FOV)
- Pivot scan option to reduce stripes commonly observed in LSFM images
- Multiview imaging to acquire complimentary information from different angles
- Tiling tool to acquire panoramic images covering a substantially larger FOV
- Imaging chambers for live samples with temperature control
- Imaging chambers for samples that have undergone tissue clearing
- Supported tissue clearing techniques include CLARITY, CUBIC, iDISCO and BABB (with refractive indexes from 1.33 to 1.58)
- Supported sample size up to 2×2×3 cm3 (when using a 5× detection objective)
- Detection objectives:
- EC Plan-NEOFLUAR 5×/0.16
- EC Plan-NEOFLUAR 5x/0.16 foc
- W Plan-APO 20×/1.0 DIC
- W Plan-APO 40×/1.0 DIC
- Clr Plan-NEOFLUAR 20×/1.0 Corr nd=1.45
- Clr Plan-NEOFLUAR 20x/1.0 Corr nd=1.53
Usage rate
- Internal users: $185
- Collaborators: $370
- External users: $925
Location
Y205
Staff-in-charge
Senior Scientific Officer
- Y208
- 34008788
- michael.yf.yuen@polyu.edu.hk
Scientific Officer
- Z215
- 34008984
- alan.sl.leung@polyu.edu.hk