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>Hi Benedikt,
>
>we acquired a Leica resonant scanner based confocal about 6 months
>ago. Before buying this system we tested different types of
>microscopes including three spinning disc based systems (Andor, PE
>and Visitec QLC100), two point-scan based systems (Leica and Visitec
>Eye) and the new Zeiss LSM5 Live system. We brought our own samples
>(transgenic plant material) and used these to test the different
>systems in terms of speed, photobleaching and overall image quality.
>
>We found the spinning disc based systems to be slightly faster than
>the Leica system especially when acquiring square images (e.g.
>512x512 pixels). However the speed of the Leica system increases
>significantly when you reduce the number of lines in the Y
>direction. You should have no problem acquiring 10 fps with a
>resolution of 512x512 pixels resolution and about 15-20 fps with a
>resolution of 512x128 pixels.
>
>In our experience the level of photobleaching is quite low when
>using the Leica system. I would say it is comparable to the spinning
>disc systems we tested and significantly lower than the Visitec Eye
>system that bleached my sample (transgenic GFP5-ER plants) within
>seconds (this system did however work nicely for calcium imaging in
>dendrites so the level of photobleaching depends on the properties
>of the fluorechrome).
>
>In the end we chose the Leica system because it was sufficiently
>fast, had an adjustable and round pinhole making it fully confocal,
>had low levels of photobleaching, had a very flexible bandpass
>filter solution and could easily and relatively cheaply be upgraded
>to a tandem scanner system (both resonant and conventional scanner
>in the same system).
>
>
>Best regards
>Martin Seem
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>Martin Seem
>Graduate student
>Group for Cell and Molecular Biology
>Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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