Re: thermal imaging through microscope

Posted by Sripad Ram-2 on
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Have a look at flir cameras (https://www.flir.com/). For reasons mentioned
by Craig, it will not be beneficial to mount the camera on a microscope but
they do have very good sensitivity to detect 0.5 Deg C change.

Sripad


On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 1:10 PM Mark Cannell <[hidden email]>
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> I suggest you do a calculation as to what temperature difference you
> expect -use the metabolic rate of say reptiles and solve the heat equation
> for a cylinder of the appropriate size. I suspect the delta t is very very
> small.
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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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