A new microscope based on a light sheet excitation, the SPIM (Selective Plane Illumination Microscope), allows rapid optical sectioning in 3D and in depth on living samples and offers multi-views acquisition opening new perspectives in biological observation. This unique equipment is now available to the entire scientific community
The MacroSPIM, a macroscope based on a light sheet excitation, makes it possible after optical clearing to visualize tissues and whole organs by rapid in depth 3D optical sectioning. This novel approach offers multi-view acquisition possibilities and opens up new perspectives in biological observation. This unique equipment, based on developments carried out in Barcelona (IRB), is now made available to the entire scientific community by CERT.
Finally, CERT is also equipped with a biphotonic confocal microscope. The use of an infrared laser for the excitation using higher wavelengths than in conventional fluorescence microscopy allows to penetrate more deeply into living samples and thus allows 3D and deep acquisitions.
CERT has a confocal bi-photonic AxioExaminer microscope (LSM 880 Zeiss) equipped with a pulsed Ti/Sa (Chohérent) laser (NLO) and 3 visible lasers.
Using the QUASAR technology, this microscope offers the great advantage of simultaneous spectral detection in a single scan. It is possible, in a single acquisition, without loss of time and without space-time shift, to acquire and perfectly separate more than 4 fluorochromes whose spectra overlap.
Real-time microscopy consists of imaging living samples over time with cellular resolution while maintaining temperature and respiratory conditions compatible with the survival of the samples. Samples can be cell cultures or whole organisms (mice, fish, drosophila), including tissue explants and spheroids.
We propose a variety of equipment : videomicroscopes, Biphotons, SPIM, that are all capable of Real-Time imaging. These equipments are coupled with specific modules that control the survival parameters of the samples (thermostatic chambers, CO2, anesthesia, respiratory and small animal monitoring systems).
