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1. Start Hardware

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Turn on the mercury short arc lamp light

switch.

Note: Whenever the mercury lamp is turned on,
it should be left on for at least 30 minutes. Once
the lamp has been turned off, it should not be
turned on again for 30 minutes.

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Remote control

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PC power

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IF REQUIRED: UV laser power (black switch in white

frame)
Do not touch the cooling unit; it has been set to
“automatic”.

Summary of Contents for LSM 510

Page 1: ...Quick Start Zeiss LSM 510...

Page 2: ...IRING YOUR FINAL IMAGE 15 8 SAVING YOUR FINAL IMAGE 17 9 ACQUIRING A Z SERIES 18 10 ADVANCED OPTIONS 20 10 1 SINGLE TRACK SIMULTANEOUS ACQUISITION 20 10 1 1 Getting the display ready 20 10 1 2 Optimis...

Page 3: ...cury lamp is turned on it should be left on for at least 30 minutes Once the lamp has been turned off it should not be turned on again for 30 minutes Remote control PC power IF REQUIRED UV laser power...

Page 4: ...Double click the LSM 510 desktop icon The Zeiss LSM 510 switchboard window will appear Make sure Scan New Images is pressed and then click the Start expert mode button If Scan New Images is not presse...

Page 5: ...the desired lasers position HeNe s to ON Argon to Standby When the Status reads Ready click the On buttons Also turn OFF any lasers that have been left on for you but you will not be using If the pre...

Page 6: ...the body of the microscope The intensity of brightfield light is most easily adjusted with the Intensity control knob on the body of the microscope Arc lamp light can be shuttered on and off by either...

Page 7: ...arc lamp light can be shuttered on and off by the FL button on the body of the microscope on the right hand side Brightfield halogen light can be switched on and off HAL button on the body of the micr...

Page 8: ...MultiTrack button in the Configuration Control window Load the configuration that matches your fluorophores referred to as tracks by clicking the Config button Click on the drop down box and select a...

Page 9: ...utton in the Acquire sub toolbar to open then Scan control window Click the Find button and the computer will open a new image window and calculate the approximate levels to generate a starting image...

Page 10: ...ting the display ready This current type of display does not allow fine tuning of the imaging parameters and so needs to be adjusted Optimizing the confocal settings is best done with the image pseudo...

Page 11: ...11 Your image window will now look like this...

Page 12: ...ing detected Start with each at the optimum 1 Airy Unit by clicking the 1 button This will give different Optical Slice values for each channel Increase the pinholes of the shorter wavelength channels...

Page 13: ...ng the max signal The max signal is set by adjusting the detector gain and laser transmission simultaneously You need to empirically work out the best laser power settings low laser power causes less...

Page 14: ...t both channels stop scanning by pressing the Stop button in the Scan Control window Your image will look like this above Turn off the optimised channel in the Configuration Control window Turn on the...

Page 15: ...nd click the Mode button Change the Frame size by clicking on the Optimal button see Appendix 1 for an explanation of this Noise can be reduced by averaging a number of frames and slowing the scan spe...

Page 16: ...n the Single button in the scan control window to collect your final image bottom Click on the image window Info button This will bring up a bar on the left of the image window with the image informat...

Page 17: ...ingle or multiple images or stacks Press Save as in the image window and the Save Image and Parameter window will open You can now chose to add your image to an existing database Open MDB button or cr...

Page 18: ...d in the middle of the specimen Stop acquisition You can now precisely define the middle and depth of you z series Ensure the Num Slices 20 and the Interval 1 m at this point to ensure the top and bot...

Page 19: ...and adjust the Pinhole so that each channel has the same optical section around 1 Airy unit but one channel will have to be slightly larger Readjust the red lines that indicate the top and bottom of...

Page 20: ...is a delay between channels Sometimes this is unacceptable in particular for live cell imaging where the cell can move between channels creating artefacts In this case Single track mode should be use...

Page 21: ...y steps up the gain and laser as it approaches the bottom reference slice 1 In the Scan Control Z settings window activate the Auto Z Corr 2 While in Fast XY scan mode focus to near the top of the sam...

Page 22: ...this the microscope transmitted path needs to be set correctly Open the Microscope Control panel Toolbar Acquire then Micro The Field Stop iris needs to be fully opened 100 The Filter at 100 The trans...

Page 23: ...ck return to imaging Try 10 as a first attempt In Excitation of Bleach Track set bleaching laser to 100 3 Click Define Region button to select bleach area 4 Define area to bleach then select it by tic...

Page 24: ...rocess Bleached area 7 Save experiment 8 Create ROI reference image Turn ROI white by clicking the ROI colour button and selecting white Export this image for reference via the menu command File Expor...

Page 25: ...turned on This will mean the top will need resetting and could result in damage to the 12 000 63 objective Turn off the epifluorescence lamp Cover the microscope avoiding the hot lamp housing 11 3 Exi...

Page 26: ...e download and installation of an extra DAO file if you have Microsoft Office 2000 12 2 ImageJ http rsb info nih gov ij Plus Zeiss plugin http rsb info nih gov ij plugins lsm reader html Requires LSM...

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