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Equipment Booking

In order to ensure that you are able to use the equipment, please book it through this wiki page. Write your name and the time where you wish to use the microscope. Example: Name1 9am-12pm; Name2 1pm-4p

• Microscope 1
  1. Fluorescence, brightfield, phase contrast
  2. IPLab control
  3. Cooke PCO 1600 (CCD; 1600x1200 7.4 um pixels; 30 fps @ full frame, 50 fps binned 2x2)
     (http://www.cookecorp.com/sensitive-cameras/pco1600/)
  4. Nikon Zyla (CMOS 2560 x 2160 6.5 µm pixels)
  5. Hamamatsu Orca II (C4742-98-24 ERG; CCD; 1344x1024 6.45 um pixels; 5.6 fps  in high-speed mode, 0.83 fps in high-precision mode @ full frame)
     (http://sales.hamamatsu.com/assets/pdf/hpspdf/C4742-98-24ER.pdf)
  6. Computer: Raid 0 harddrive.

• Microscope 2
  1. Fluorescence, brightfield, darkfield, phase contrast
  2. Nikon NIS-Elements control
  3. Andor iXon-885 (EMCCD; 1004x1002 8 um pixels; 30 fps @ full frame, 60 fps binned 2x2)
     (http://www.andor.com/scientific_cameras/ixon_emccd_camera/)

• Microscope 3
  1. Brightfield, darkfield, phase contrast
  2. Nikon NIS-Elements control
  3. Andor Neo sCMOS (CMOS; 2560x2160 6.5 um pixels; 100 fps @ full frame, 400 fps @ 528x512)
     (http://www.andor.com/scientific_cameras/neo_scmos_camera/)

• Photron SA3 60K -High-Speed Camera
  1. Photron PFV software through gigabit ethernet connection (NOT controlled by IPLab or Nikon NIS-Elements)
  2. CMOS; 1024x1024 17 um pixels; 1000 fps @ full frame, 3000 fps @ 512x512
     (http://www.photron.com/index.php?cmd=product_general&product_id=6&product_name=FASTCAM+SA3)

Syringe pump P = Harvard Apparatus Programmable; I/W = Infuse/Withdraw; (n): number of syringes