Olympus FV1200 Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope

Overview

Specifications

  • Inverted Olympus IX83 microscope
  • Olympus XYZ Motorized stage
  • Stage incubator with heat
  • 3 PMTs and 2 High Sensitivity Detectors
  • Optional transmitted light detector
  • Image sizes up to 1024 x 1024 pixels
  • Scanning speed: (pixel time): 2 µs - 5 ms/High speed scanning mode: 16 frames/s (256x256)
  • Silicone Immersion Objectives for deeper tissue imaging
  • Olympus acquisition software

Fluorescence Filters and Lasers

Name Set Std dyes Cy series Alexa Ex Em
405 Laser Confocal DAPI/Hoechst     405 461
440 Laser Confocal CFP     440 480
473 Laser Confocal FITC Cy2 AF488 487 519
561 Laser Confocal TRITC/TxRed Cy3/Cy3.5 AF546/594 561 578
635 Laser Confocal APC Cy5/Cy5.5 AF647 637 668

Objectives

NOTE: Si immersion objectives will be MOVED to the new FV4000 in Spring 2025. We will replace these with standard oil-immersion objectives

Objective OIL Corr WD mm Z DOF µm
4x/0.16   UPlan Superapochromat 13.00 31.64
10x/0.4   UPlan Superapochromat 3.10 5.06
30x/1.05 Si UPlan Superapochromat 0.80 0.99
60x/1.30 Si UPlan Superapochromat 0.30 0.57
100x/1.35 Si UPlan Superapochromat 0.20 0.49