Re: High speed spinning disc confocal with EMCCD camera - commercial response

Posted by Marco De Spirito on
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Hi Sivaram,

we have bough the Crisel  X-Light one years ago.  Image quality is
comparable, if not better, than those of standard laser confocal systems,
and the price is really competitive. Furthermore the software (MetaMorph)
does not undergo to any crash (at least up to now!!).

Now I know they have introduced a new version with added fast structured
illumination for up to 80-100 namometers resolution and I’m really curious
to see how it works.

Best,

Marco

2014-12-21 4:56 GMT+01:00 John Oreopoulos <[hidden email]>:

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> *** Commercial response ***
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> Kurt, Christophe, you are both correct. Just some additional clarification
> and information:
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> Spectral Applied Research was acquired by Andor Technologies in October of
> 2013. The Diskovery Platform is a new spinning disk confocal system
> designed and manufactured in Canada and was officially "re-launched" by
> Andor at this year's annual Society for Neuroscience Meeting. This
> instrument has a number of distinguishing features - the application of the
> Borealis illumination scheme, removable and exchangeable confocal pinhole
> disk cartridges with different pinhole sizes and spacings (to change the
> degree of confocality and pinhole cross-talk), sCMOS camera compatible
> field of view, and an upgradable TIRF module that integrates into the same
> optical pathway as the confocal imaging mode thus allowing one to use the
> same camera for confocal and TIRF imaging (with automatic registration of
> the images). These and other additional features are described in the
> product brochure on the Andor website.
>
>
> John Oreopoulos
> Staff Scientist
> Spectral Applied Research Inc.
> A Division of Andor Technology
> Richmond Hill, Ontario
> Canada
> www.spectral.ca
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> On 2014-12-19, at 12:27 PM, Kurt Thorn wrote:
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> > On 12/19/2014 1:29 AM, Christophe Leterrier wrote:
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> >> Hi,
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> >> I think that now that they aquired Spectral Applied Research, Andor
> sells
> >> the Diskovery system (different from the Revolution), which is not
> Yokogawa
> >> based?
> > My understanding is that Andor sells both Yokogawa systems and the
> Diskovery system. In fact, I believe there will be a Borealis modification
> to the CSU-W1 available soon from Andor / Spectral Applied Research.
> >
> > Kurt
> >
> >>
> >> Christophe
> >>
> >> Le 19 déc. 2014 03:48, "Zdenek Svindrych" <[hidden email]> a écrit :
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> >> ▶ Afficher le texte des messages précédents
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> >
> > --
> > Kurt Thorn
> > Associate Professor
> > Director, Nikon Imaging Center
> > http://thornlab.ucsf.edu/
> > http://nic.ucsf.edu/blog/
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