LSM 7 Live
The LSM 5 LIVE is a revolutionary parallel scanning confocal design that offers new levels of speed and sensitivity to capture life in motion like never before. The line scanning approach allows image dimentions and parameters to be perfectly balanced for every sample
Line Scanning
Line scanners like the LSM 7
LIVE are also parallel LSMs like spinning disk microscopes.
Instead of projecting hundreds of spots, line scanners project a single line of illumination into the sample which is swept across the sample. The returning emission is filtered through a slit aperture to reject out of focus light before being detected on a line detector.
The line scanners are more complex systems than the spinning disk systems, but offer slightly better discrimination of out of focus light and additional flexibility in scan modes.
For low pixel dimension images line scanners offer the highest possible frame rate.
Applications:
- Capture fast moving structures such as blood cells or vesicles with fast 4-dimentional image acquisition
- Confocal high-speed imaging in structural and developmental biology even with low magnification and dipping lenses
- Perform physiology measurements perfectly matched to the biological timescales
- Visualize fine cell structures at high resolution with the necessary sensitivity
- Study cubcellular dynamics by pixel-precise bleaching, photoactivation, and conversion with the LSM 7 DuoScan
