Historical Confocal instruments

[Hawk, Alan J.]

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The National Museum of Health and Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of
Pathology (home of the Billing's Microscope collection) is considering
collecting a Zeiss LSM-310 used at AFIP.  

I would appreciate any information on the history and significance of
this particular model (which I suspect is a third generation production
model of the confocal microscope by Zeiss) of microscope.  

I would also appreciate any leads on first generation confocal
microscopes for the collection.

Thank you.

V/r

Alan Hawk
Collections Manager, Historical Collections
National Museum of Health and Medicine
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
Bldg. 54, Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Washington, DC  20306-6000
<http://nmhm.washingtondc.museum/>
<http://www.afip.org/>
Phone: [phone], DSN 662-2205
Fax: [phone], DSN 662-3573
 <mailto:[hidden email]>
 

[Barbara Foster]

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I was involved in the introduction of the Sarastro Phoibos to the US in 1989. Sarastro was a pioneer in the confocal industry and held the original patent for 3D reconstruction from confocal sections.  If you contact me off-line, I can probably provide you with a considerable amount of information.

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At 02:53 PM 8/22/2007, Hawk, Alan J. wrote:

Search the CONFOCAL archive at
http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=confocal

The National Museum of Health and Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of
Pathology (home of the Billing's Microscope collection) is considering
collecting a Zeiss LSM-310 used at AFIP. 

I would appreciate any information on the history and significance of
this particular model (which I suspect is a third generation production
model of the confocal microscope by Zeiss) of microscope. 

I would also appreciate any leads on first generation confocal
microscopes for the collection.

Thank you.

V/r

Alan Hawk
Collections Manager, Historical Collections
National Museum of Health and Medicine
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
Bldg. 54, Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Washington, DC  20306-6000
< http://nmhm.washingtondc.museum/>
< http://www.afip.org/>
Phone: [phone], DSN 662-2205
Fax: [phone], DSN 662-3573
 <[hidden email]>
 

[Guy Cox]

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Zeiss' first confocal microscope was the LSM10, which came out in the

late 80s and which they called a 'second generation' instrument since

they had marketed a (non-confocal) scanning microscope previously.

It suffered from a totally embedded computer system with a very minimal

OS (files could not be given names, they were just numbered) and a

lack of bit depth.  To be honest it simply couldn't compete against the

Bio-rad MRC500 of the same era, which used an IBM-compatible PC. 

 

So you are right that the 310 was the third generation Zeiss confocal

but in Zeiss' terms it's their fourth generation scanning optical

microscope.

 

                                                                                   Guy

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Subject: Historical Confocal instruments

Search the CONFOCAL archive at
http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=confocal

The National Museum of Health and Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of
Pathology (home of the Billing's Microscope collection) is considering
collecting a Zeiss LSM-310 used at AFIP. 

I would appreciate any information on the history and significance of
this particular model (which I suspect is a third generation production
model of the confocal microscope by Zeiss) of microscope. 

I would also appreciate any leads on first generation confocal
microscopes for the collection.

Thank you.

V/r

Alan Hawk
Collections Manager, Historical Collections
National Museum of Health and Medicine
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
Bldg. 54, Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Washington, DC  20306-6000
<http://nmhm.washingtondc.museum/>
<http://www.afip.org/>
Phone: [phone], DSN 662-2205
Fax: [phone], DSN 662-3573
 <[hidden email]>