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Introduction
The Zeiss Elyra TIRF PALM/STORM super-resolution microscope is located in
room 00/071, Lab 1 in the WTCHG building.
The new Zeiss Elyra TIRF microscope has:
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Zeiss Observer wide-field inverted TIRF flourescence microscope
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X-Cite 120Q fluorescence excitation illuminator
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Triple dichroic filter for FITC, TRITC and Cy5 far red
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NewPort Vision IsoStation anti-vibration isolation table for Elyra system
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PALM super-resolution illumination module
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Piezzo fast Z stage with 100μm range
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Motorised XY stage
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Black box XL stage incubator for super-resolution with temperature
control
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Plan Apochromat 10x NA 0.3 air objective
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Plan Apochromat 20x objective NA 0.8 air objective
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Alpha Plan Apochromat 100x NA 1.46 oil objective
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Andor iXon DU 897 EM-CCD (512x512 pixel) camera
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DAPI 405nm line 50mW diode laser
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GFP 488nm line 100mW laser
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DsRed 561nm line 100mW laser
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Imaging PC workstation for Elyra systems S.1, P.1 and PS.1
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30" LCD TFT PC monitor
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Zeiss ZEN Black image acquisition software with super-resolution
PALM/STORM module
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Two hardware USB2 licence keys for Zen Black imaging software, one
on the microscope PC and the other on the Core’s Imaging Workstation
To view the Ziess image files on your office PC you will need to download and
install Zeiss's Zen Lite program (Windows PCs only).
