Olympus IX81

Specifications

• Olympus IX81 motorized inverted microscope with fluorescence and DIC optics
• Prior motorized x,y,z stage and external filter wheels work with multiwavelength dichroics for accurate in color registration and imaging speed for FRET
• Software automation for FRET
• Software automation for multi-well tissue culture plates and "stitching" montages from multi-image "tiling."
• Hamamatsu Photonics C9100-02 EMCCD camera with up to 100X on-chip electron amplification gain intended for high sensitivity and least photodamage to cells
• Semrock fluorescence filters with the new hard surface coatings that are extremely high contrast and virtually eliminate bleedthrough
• Olympus UIS2 objectives: 4X/ 0.16, 10X/ 0.3, 40X/ 1.3, 60X/ 1.40 oil, 60X/ 1.20 water, and 100X/ 1.4 oil give the brightest, flattest, high-contrast images of any microscope objective and are achromatic to close tolerances over an extraordinary range (350 to 1000 nm). DIC prisms available for 10, 40, 60, and 100X lenses.