Laser scanning confocal microscope at UCSF
- Definition
- A confocal microscope that obtains high-resolution optical images with depth selectivity, in which a laser beam passes through a light source aperture and then is focused by an objective lens into a small (ideally diffraction limited) focal volume within or on the surface of a specimen.
- Categories
- Instrument → Microscope → Confocal microscope → Laser scanning confocal microscope
Parnassus
Broad Center Imaging Core
Parnassus
Contact: Kyle Marchuk
Georgia.Panagiotakos@ucsf.edu
- Leica SP5 laser scanning confocal (upright)
- Leica SP5X white-light laser scanning confocal with environmental chamber (inverted)
- Leica SP8X white-light laser scanning confocal with environmental chamber (inverted)