Leica Widefield with Thunder

This fully motorized inverted microscope is designed for fast, versatile imaging. It features a high-speed stage, two cameras, and a triggerable multichannel LED illumination system.

  • High-speed widefield imaging
  • Automated tiled imaging and image stitching for large-area acquisition.
  • Epifluorescence, transmitted-light, and polarized-light imaging
  • Monochrome and color cameras
  • Computational clearing for “pseudo-confocal” imaging (Leica THUNDER)
  • Live-cell imaging with temperature and gas control

Microscope:

  • Leica DMi8 Inverted Microscope with Adaptive Focus Control (AFC)
  • Quantum High speed  linear motorized stage (PECON)
  • OkoLab Cage Incubator

Objectives:

  • N PLAN 5x/0.12 PH0
  • HC PL APO 10x/0.45
  • HC PL APO 20x/0.80
  • HC PL APO 40x/0.95 CORR
  • HC PL APO 63x/1.40-0.60 OIL

Cameras:

  • Hamamatsu Flash 4.0 v3 with CAM-Link (100fps full frame)
  • Leica DMC4500 digital color camera 

Light Source:

  • Leica LED 8 with sequencer (395, 438, 475, 511, 555, 575, 635, 730 nm)
  • White LED for transmitted light 

 

 

Software:

  • LASX Software Package
  • Thunder computational clearing module

Filter cubes

  • Quad for CFP-YFP-RFP and Cy7 (CYR71010)
    • EX: 422-450; 495-517; 566-590; 710-750
    • DC: 459; 523; 598; 763
    • EM: 462-484; 527-551; 602-680; 770-850
  • Quad for DAPI-FITC-TRITC and Cy5 (DFT51010)
    • EX: 375-407; 462-496;542-566; 622-654
    • DC: 415; 500; 572; 660
    • EM: 420-450; 506-532; 578-610; 666-724
  • Analyser for polarized light.

Emission Filter wheel:

  • 460/80
  • 535/70
  • 590/50
  • 642/80
  • 100%

 

 


 

Location
Weill Institute for Neurosciences Building (MB)
Room
451J
Core
Innovation Core (Weill)
Type
Light
Technique
Brightfield, DIC, phase
HCA on Multi-well plates
High-speed imaging (>100 fps)
Inverted microscope
Live Cell
Widefield epifluorescence
Staff contact
Special Access requirements
Training by Core Staff