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Biomedical general photomicrosopy facility

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About the Biomedical general photomicrosopy facility

We have a variety of standard, high quality, upright and inverted photomicroscopes with different imaging modalities for general imaging purposes:

  • bright field
  • phase contrast
  • dark field
  • polarising
  • Differential Interference Contrast (DIC)
  • fluorescence

Technical specification

Nikon Eclipse 80i photomicroscope (x2)

  • brightfield, polarising and DIC imaging modalities
  • objective range x2 to x100
  • Nikon DN100 colour digital microscope camera
     

Olympus SZX9 low power photomicroscope

  • continuous zoom from x6.3 to x57
  • transmitted light and fibre optic ring incident lighting
  • oblique fluorescence illumination with 9 filter sets
  • Nikon DN100 colour digital microscope camera
     

Olympus BX-51 photomicroscope

  • brightfield, darkfield and phase contrast imaging
  • objective range x10 to x40
  • Olympus E330 7.5 MP dSLR camera
     

Nikon Diaphot inverted phase contrast photomicroscope

  • x4, x10, x20, x40 (LWD) phase objectives
  • Eppendorf electronic 3 axis micromanipulator system
  • Nikon D3300 DSLR camera
     

Zeiss Axioskop2 MOT fluorescence microscope

  • x4, x10, x20, x40 dry, x40 oil, x100 oil objectives
  • HBO 100 watt mercury lamp
  • DAPI/FITC/TRITC/EGFP filter cubes
  • FLIR blackfly fluorescence camera under micromanager control
     

Coming soon

  • Zeiss STEMI SV11 bright field and epifluorescence dissecting microscope system
  • Leica DMIRB inverted phase contrast and fluorescence microscope

Contact us

Contact us

023 8120 4815/UHS x4815
BIU@soton.ac.uk
We are based in the Laboratory and Pathology block at Southampton General Hospital.
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We’re open Monday to Friday 09:00 to 17:00 UK time.

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