Our main supplier in the field of microscopy - the company Andor won an award for the Dragonfly confocal microscope. It was selected as one of the most technically significant products of 2017! The uniqueness of the instrument lies in the comprehensive re-design of the well-known concept from the 1990s of the"rotating disk with microlenses", which had its foundations in the Czechoslovak invention of Professor Mojimir Petran from the 1970s.
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Compared to older models of confocal microscopes based on a rotating microlens disk, the Dragonfly stands out with the following features:
- Order of magnitude higher light transmission through the rotating disk - lower laser intensities and at the same time higher power density
- Perfect uniformity of illumination over the entire field of view - quantitative measurement and coupling of multiple fields of view
- Complete enclosure of the rotating disk and isolation from the environment - dust does not penetrate the system and does not settle on the optics
- Optimized pinhole size and position - greater penetration depth (up to several hundred micrometers)
The Dragonfly confocal microscope includes the Borealisillumination system .
Andor cameras with CMOS and EMCCDare also responsible for the perfect performance .
Last but not least, there is the Fusion software, which was developed in parallel and is therefore perfectly adapted to the needs of a complex microscope. It also provides the possibility of deconvolution, stitching/montageof fields of view, and now the possibility of super-resolution SRRF Stream microscopy.
Imaris software is also included for 3D Visualization and Analysis.
The complete article can be found here.