A range of modern microscopes is available for routine research use. Each is fitted with a high quality digital camera for image acquisition.

• Olympus AX70 fluorescence microscope
  The Olympus AX70 fluorescence microscope with 4 narrow band filter sets for UV, blue, green or red excitation, differential interference contrast imaging, and a Hamamatsu Orca cooled CCD camera.

• Olympus BX50 fluorescence microscope
  Olympus BX50 fluorescence microscopewith 4  filter sets for UV, blue, green or red excitation and a Photometrics CoolSNAP cooled CCD camera.

• Olympus IX71 inverted fluorescence microscope

• Olympus IX71 inverted fluorescence microscope
  for imaging cell cultures, fitted with 4 filter sets for UV, blue, green or red excitation, Hoffmann contrast optics, and Soft Imaging Systems  F-View CCD  camera.

• Olympus BX50 brightfield microscope and Q-Imaging colour CDD camera
  For general imaging of stained sections.

• Olympus SZX10 dissecting microscope / macroscope with Olympus DP20-5E digital imaging system.

Image Processing, Analysis and Reconstruction

Several programs are available for quantitative image analysis and 3D reconstruction of confocal data sets. Images can be deconvolved, and both volume-rendered and surface-rendered 3D models can be generated and analysed. Various types of image sampling methods and statistical analyses are available on request.

Contact Ian Gibbins for advice on reconstruction and analytical methods, including statistical approaches.