Category

Light Microscope

Overview

The Opera QEHS is a fully automated confocal microscope, using the Nipkow-disc. It has multiple high-power lasers and is enabled to do multi colour imaging. It has a laser-autofocus and an on-board dispensing unit.It's equipped with 3 cameras having a minimal exposure time of 40ms and can produce up to 100.000 multicolour images per day.

Suitable for Automated high-resolution, high-throughput imaging of thin-bottom microtiter plates (96well, 384well, 1536well).

The on-the-fly image analysis software Acapella runs paralell on 3 CIAs

Features

Inverted stand

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- plate robot : Twister II

Objectives

Olympus UPlanSApo 10x 0.4

Olympus UApo 20x W3 0.7 W

Olympus PlanApo 40x WLSM-2 0.9 W

Olympus UPlanApo 60x 1.2 W

Illumination

Laser Diode 405 nm

Laser DPSS 488 nm

Laser DPSS 561 nm

Laser Diode 635 nm

Detection

- 3x CCD cameras with 1.3 mega pixel – peltier-cooled – 12 bit resolution

Reflectors

- Filters: various filters to detect a wide spectrum from Alexa405/DAPI to Alexa647/DRAQ5

Software

- EvoShell

- Acapella (image analysis)

Incubation

Not available