confocal detectors and deconvolution

Posted by mmodel on
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Dear colleagues,



we are looking for a new confocal microscope, and I have two questions so far.

1.      Are Leica'a hybrid detectors (I am talking about SP8) in any way better than the standard GaAsP? I found an old discussion of this topic on this list, but technology may have improved since then.

2.      Both Leica and Olympus 3000 use deconvolution to boost resolution. We haven't  had enough time during the demos to test it thoroughly, but my impression is that some features "revealed" by deconvolution might be artefactual, so I don't know if it is worth paying extra.



Thank you



Mike Model

Kent State University