Re: LEDs

Posted by James Pawley on
URL: http://confocal-microscopy-list.275.s1.nabble.com/LEDs-tp4283200p4283637.html

>Hi,
>
>I was wondering if anybody has some experience with using LEDs as
>excitation sources for fluorescence microscopy and could recommend
>me some companies and/or specific models.
>
>We are interested in equipping a Nikon Ti with LEDs instead of the
>conventional mercury lamp (e.g. Nikon's Intensilight). The main
>application of the microscope would be quantitative high-throughput
>time-lapse microscopy.
>
>Thanks a lot. Dirk

A good place to start might be Chapter 6 of The Handbook of
Biological Confocal Microscopy.

Cheers,

Jim P.

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