Zeiss LSM 990

OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS

Instrument Specifications
  • 2 liquid-cooled MA-PMT detectors, 2 NIR detectors and 1 high-sensitivity 32-channel GaAsP array detector with full emission tunability, 36 channels in total
  • Laser excitation wavelengths (nm):
    • 405 nm
    • 488 nm
    • 561 nm
    • 594 nm
    • 639 nm
    • 730 nm
  • Objective lenses:
    • 5x/0.15
    • 10x/0.45
    • 20x/0.8
    • 40x/1.4 oil
    • 63x/1.4 oil
    • Also available are 10x, 20x, and 40x water dipping lenses
  • Up to ten channels can be simultaneously imaged
  • Emission wavelength range of 380 to 900 nm
  • AiryScan 2 superresolution detector, enabling 120 nm resolution in XY, 350 nm in Z, works with all visible lasers, and doubles as an additional GaAsP confocal detector
  • High-speed stage for fast volume imaging
  • Fully motorized Axios Z.2 upright stand optimized for imaging fixed samples on slides
  • ZEN 3.13 software package including modules for Z-stack, time-lapse, photobleaching, spectral unmixing, automated image analysis, colocalization, autofocus, 3D rendering and tiling
  • Transmitted light detector with DIC
  • Separate, high-end workstation with ZEN and Arivis software