Nikon CSU-W1 SoRa Spinning Disk


The Nikon SoRa include two spinning disks which can be exchanged easily via software control: a super resolution disk which also includes the capability of optical sectioning, and a standard confocal imaging disk.

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Nikon CSU-W1 SoRa Spinning Disk

The CSU-W1 SoRa is a confocal field scanning spinning disk system and a confocal super resolution system in a single package. We offer dry as well as water immersion lenses for high resolution imaging with fixed and live cell.

  • Modalities: spinning disk confocal, brightfield, widefield
  • piezo z-stacks, time-lapse imaging, tiling
  • Perfect Focus System
  • Four laser lines for fluorophores like: DAPI, CFP, GFP, YFP, RFP, Cy5,
  • Air, water immersion, and oil immersion objectives
  • Environmental chamber for live cell: Tokai Hit STXF
  • Universal sample holders
  • Microscope body: motorized inverted Nikon Eclipse Ti2-E
  • hardware triggering for multicolor imaging without switching emission filters
  • Software: Nikon JOBS, General Analysis 3

Laser Lines

385, 475, 550, and 621

OBJECTIVES

CFI60 PLAN APOCHROMAT LAMBDA D 4X
CFI60 PLAN APOCHROMAT LAMBDA D 20X
CFI APO LWD 40X WI 1.15 NA LAMBDA S
CFI60 PLAN APOCHROMAT LAMBDA D 60X Oil
CFI60 PLAN APOCHROMAT LAMBDA D 100X Oil

Camera

Hamamatsu ORCA-Fusion Gen III sCMOS

Filters

ET455/50M, DAPI-ET EMISSION FILTER 25MM
ET525/36M EMISSION FILTER, 25MM
ET605/52M EMISSION FLTER 25MM
89101M EM FLTR DAPI/FITC/TRITC/CY5, 25MM

Spinning Disk Unit

CSU-W1 DL DSK SNGL CAM 50/50UMSR LSR SYS

Microlensing the emission pinhole at the correct magnification counteracts the mismatch between an on-axis excitation PSF and the effective confocal PSF (product of excitation and emission PSFs) through an emission pinhole that is not infinitely small.

By microlensing, individual points’ divergence angle onto the pinhole is reduced 2x, mimicking the effect of an infinitely small ideal pinhole, but not compromising signal brightness.

  • Do not use ibidi polymer slides with the Nikon immersion oil.
Primary Contact

Hunter Hakimian       hunter.hakimian@emory.edu