thermal imaging through microscope

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Hi;
                I'm looking for suggestions and equipment to do thermal imaging through a microscope. We want to image C. elegans to look at their body temperature under different metabolic conditions. While I know they are poikilotherms, we believe they will show a difference to their local background under these conditions. Can you recommend a decent camera for thermal imaging? Are there IR cutoff filters or optics that will not transmit IR wavelengths in a basic fluorescence-type microscope (needed for worm-sized resolution ~10x mag)?
                Thanks in advance.
                Kathy Spencer

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Dept of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
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