Optical Imaging & Vital Microscopy (OiVM) Core Facility at the Baylor College of Medicine
We are a Light Microscopy Core Facility Specializing in Optical Sectioning Tools for Fluorescence Microscopy
The mission of the Optical Imaging & Vital Microscopy (OiVM) Core is to give our investigators the tools and technical expertise they need to obtain reliable, reproducible scientific data using state-of-the-art microscopy modalities. We have over 20 years of experience educating, training and assisting scientists with experiments using the latest cutting edge imaging methodologies.
Our core specializes in vital and intravital imaging of cellular processes within cells, intact tissue explants, developing embryos and functioning organs within the live animal.
This tutorial is so great! Do you have a written protocol that I can print so all the students can follow? We use a shared equipment and all the settings are deleted when we exit the program. Is there a way to get the same settings when we go back to the confocal? Thank you s much!
Thank you Cleusa! We do have a PDF guide on our website: oivm.org/lsm880/#training As for saving your settings - you can either save them to the Experiment Manager at the top of the Acquisition dialog or you can load them from an image by clicking the 'Reuse' button from any CZI image taken with the same system.
@@OiVM Thank you Jason. The guide has some areas where the text is not very visible. I looked for the "reuse" button but I couldn't find it. Is it possible that we don't see it because of the version that we have?
Thank you for this helpful video! I have a question concerning the Beampath Configuration: How can I change the Detectors? Instead of Ch1, CHS1 and CH2 I can only choose between CH1, CH2 GaAsP and CH3. How can I set up the same detectors you showed in this video? I'd be extremely thankful if you could help me out with that!
Glad you liked it! Detector choice will depend on your system configuration. Some LSM 780/880 instruments are equipped with a single PMT instead of the 32 channel spectral array (ChS) in that second detector slot. Regardless, the order of the channels would be the same for the sequential acquisition presented. On your system use Ch2 GaAsP in place of ChS1 and Ch3 in place of Ch2. Ch1 remains the same. You will just rely on the upstream prisms for emission separation to Ch2 rather than the electronic selection the 32 element spectral array provides.
