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Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy - Made Easy - Olympus Introduces FSX100
Hamburg, 23.10.2009 – Olympus has introduced the all-in-one FSX100
fluorescence microscope system to enable even the most inexperienced users to
create high-end research images. The FSX100 microscope is designed to remove all
of the complex steps involved in setting-up and using multi-channel fluorescence
microscopes, ensuring that users can concentrate on the images and data without
any prior microscopy expertise.
By coupling high quality microscopy and imaging components with precision
automation and advanced software, the Olympus FSX100 presents simplified
workflows so that users can obtain high quality images and image series by
simply: loading their sample; defining their observation mode and regions of
interest (ROI); and then capturing their images: as straight-forward as
Set-Select-Capture.
The advanced UIS2 optics used in the FSX100 include an SAPO 40x (NA 0.95)
objective and 0.4x-2.0x optical zoom, providing an overall magnification range
of 17x-80x. The three pre-installed fluorescence filter cubes - ultraviolet
(360-370 nm), blue (460-495 nm) and green (530-550 nm) - cover a broad range of
dyes with fluorescence illumination provided by an easy to fit, pre-centred
metal-halide burner with a 2,000 hour lifespan. A highly stable LED illumination
system is used to provide consistent brightfield and phase contrast illumination
with a 16,000 hour lifespan.
All components are motorised and controlled via the interactive software,
ensuring that functions such as focusing, exposure, fluorescence wavelength
selection and even cover slip thickness correction are automated. As a result
the user does not have to touch the microscope at all and can perform advanced
imaging processes such as time-lapses, Z-stacks and multi-image alignments with
ease. Due the compact and self-contained design of the FSX100, it can be placed
on the bench at the point of discovery, or easily transported to wherever it is
needed, making microscopy very flexible. Furthermore, the stage is completely
enclosed and therefore provides full darkroom facilities, ensuring maximum
imaging sensitivity.
The highly intuitive software guides users through the whole imaging process. An
overview image of the sample is generated automatically once the slide or cell
culture dish is placed on the stage and the user has clicked ‘start’. From here,
regions of interest are selected and the microscope zooms in, optimising the
image and presenting the user with a series of intuitive tools for imaging the
sample. At this stage the user can capture the automatically optimised images or
manually adjust settings such as the focus and exposure time, magnification,
stage position and even change the observation method. On capturing images, the
associated data and meta-data are stored in a highly logical image library. As a
result, settings from existing images can be reapplied to the instrument for
imaging new samples, ensuring excellent experimental consistency.
Please contact:
OLYMPUS LIFE SCIENCE EUROPA GMBH
Esther Ahrent
Department Manager Marketing Communication
Tel: +49 40 2 37 73 - 5426
Fax: +49 40 2 37 73 - 4647
E-mail:
microscopy@olympus-europa.com
www.microscopy.olympus.eu
For Olympus in the USA, please contact:
Ilene Semiatin
Edge Communications Inc.
White Plains, NY 10605
1.914.684.0959
Ilene@edge-comm.net
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