Zeiss 880 Airyscan Upgrade
The Core Zeiss 880 will be upgraded next week to run 4 times faster.
Zeiss officially announced a 4x speed improvement for their Airyscan detector May 3, 2016. The Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology has been selected as a Demo site and Zeiss will be installing the upgrade in our instrument May 9, 2016. Zeiss will also be presenting a talk Wednesday, May 11, 2016, at noon covering the details. This is your chance to be the first in the nation to collect data from this cutting edge instrument.
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Performance 27 fps at 480 X 480.
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Liner scanning give 80% of scan time for photon collection.
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Equal pixel integration time.
If you would like to use the fast mode, the Core will be hosting free demonstration times on May 16-18, 2016. Please contact Joyce, Glenn or Shiv to schedule a time.