Eckstein Medical Research Building Room 84C

Provides accurate, unbiased Stereological estimates of the number, length, area and volume of cells or biological structures in a tissue

Instrument Specifications

• Objective lenses
  • 1.5x
  • 5x/0.15
  • 10x/0.30
  • 20x/0.50
  • 40x/0.60 OIL
• Illumination Modes
  • Transmitted light
  • Fluorescence capabilities
    • DAPI
    • FITC
    • Texas Red
• Other Features
  • Motorized condenser
  • Automatic Koehler illumination
  • Motorized stage
  • Z-encoder
• Software for Stereology
• Microbrightfield Stereo Investigator
  • Designed based stereology
  • Image analysis
  • 2D anatomical mapping
  • Import image data from other  light microscopes(bright field, fluorescence, confocal, slide scanner) or electron microscopes
  • Collect data directly from slides
• Stereology methodology
  • Cavaleri method for volume measurements
  • Optical fractionator for counting
  • Space Balls for 3-D length measurement
• Biolucida Cloud for working with large data and sharing of files remotely
  • Allows remote viewing and/or access  of 2-D or 3-D virtual tissue image montages
  • File support includes Jpeg2000 (.jp2, .jpf .jpx), Aperio (.svs), Nanozoomer (.ndpi, .vms, .vmu) Tiff (.tif). (Fluoview (tif), Leica and Zeiss (.lsm)
  • Screen image export in .tif, .jpg or .png file formats