Andor Technology has launched the DSD Uni, which can add a confocal unit to almost any fluorescence microscope, upright or inverted, irrespective of manufacturer.
A key part of the DSD Uni's design is a universal mount that maintains camera and confocal unit stability.
This maintains the feature of filter set exchange without disassembly, which was previously only available on inverted microscopes.
According to Andor, the user benefits from alignment-free use of the confocal system, thus saving valuable imaging time.
An additional recent enhancement to this laser-free technology includes the ability to offer four-wavelength imaging instead of just three.
The new motorised Andor AMH metal halide light source makes wavelength switching faster, with light intensity to the sample being finely and discreetly controlled for each wavelength independently.
This reduces bleaching and/or phototoxicity for fixed or live cell applications.
Andor claims the Revolution DSD technology offers freely tunable excitation and emission filtering for newly developed fluorescent probes; fast imaging compared to point-scanning systems; and a choice of imaging in confocal or wide-field mode.
