Which Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques is Best for Me?
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Blog Post
Published
Oct. 10, 2017, 1:57 p.m.
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Point Scanning Confocal Microscopy
Point Scanning Confocal Microscopy was the first...microscopy technique to incorporate optical sectioning. Optical sectioning refers to the ability to extract light... Confocal Microscopy (Spinning Disk)
Parallelized Confocal Microscopy (Spinning Disk) increases the speed...to enhance performance. In spinning disk microscopy, a metal disk containing a number of holes rotates ...samples always require some form of optical sectioning. Point scanning confocal microscopes (see above) often...volumes to enhance spatial contrast (i.e. optical sectioning (2) or super-resolution (3).
Fluorescence microscopy...excitation light to a point in the sample and raster scanning the point to build up a final image pixel by pixel...