Confocal scanning microscopy at UCSF
- Definition
- A microscopy technique used in optimal imaging that increases optical resolution and contrast of a micrograph by using point illumination and a spatial pinhole to eliminate out-of-focus light in specimens that are thicker than the focal plane. It enables the reconstruction of three-dimensional structures from the obtained images.
- Synonyms
- Confocal microscopy, CLSM
- Categories
- Assay → Imaging assay → Microscopy → Confocal scanning microscopy
Gladstone Histology and Light Microscopy Core
Gladstone Institutes,
Mission Bay
Contact: General Inquiries
415-734-2566
histology@gladstone.ucsf.edu
- Confocal microscopy
Gladstone Stem Cell Core
Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease,
Mission Bay
Contact: General Inquiries
415-734-4924
polin.so@gladstone.ucsf.edu
- Long-term, Time-lapsed imaging
Nikon Imaging Center
Biochemistry and Biophysics,
Mission Bay
Contact: Delaine Larsen
(415) 851-9940
Delaine.Larsen@ucsf.edu
- Spectral Confocal Microscope: Nikon FN1 Microscope, Nikon C1si Spectral Laser Scanning Confocal (laser lines: 405, 488, 561 nm)
Laboratory for Cell Analysis (Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center Cytometry Core)
Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center,
Mission Bay, Mt. Zion
Contact: Ben Braun
415-514-4176
braunb@peds.ucsf.edu
- MB CVRI 559 Zeiss 780 Spectral Confocal microscope
- Confocal microscopy
Biological Imaging Development Center
Departments of Pathology and Medicine,
Parnassus
Contact: Jordan Briscoe
415-476-4550
bidc@ucsf.edu
- Confocal microscopy
Broad Center Imaging Core
Parnassus
Contact: William Walantus
(415) 476-0847
WalantusW@stemcell.ucsf.edu
- Leica SP5 upright
- Leica SP5X White Light Confocal with environmental chamber inverted
- Leica SP8X White Light Confocal with environmental chamber