TLL microscope's manufacturers

   

Other microscope manufacturers

Online microscopy resources

Molecular Expression
Microscopy Primer

Zeiss - Microscopy from the very beginning

Olympus - Microscopy Resource Centre

University of Buffalo confocal listserv archives and mailing list

Wikipedia's microscopy pages

Marvin Minsky, "Memoir on Inventing the Confocal Scanning Microscope"

A discussion of Digital Image Ethics from SWEHSC Cellular Imaging Core

Online spectral viewers

Invitrogen Molecular Probes - Fluorescence Spectra Viewer

BD Biosciences - Fluorescence Sprectrum Viewer

Olympus - Choosing Fluorophore Combinations for Confocal Microscopy

George McNamara & Carl Boswell:
PubSpectra - a great resource for all things spectral
Fluorescent Spectra: An Interactive Exploratory Database
Spectral traces for fluorescent dye

Books

The library at TLL houses a collection of books on microscopy.
We also have a wider collection of more up-to-date editions,
contact Graham to arrange to borrow one.

Microscopy Societies


Downloads

Zeiss LSM Image Browser

Leica LAS AF Lite (55 MB)

ImageJ (website)
EMBL distribution
(program + useful plugins)
PerkinElmer ImageJ plugin collection
ImageJ Manual
(McMaster Biophotonics Facility)

VirtualDub
for compressing *.avi files
on a Windows machine

Irfanview
Opens a large variety of image file formats

QuickTime
Useful for playing movies

GIMP
Open-source, free equivalent of Photoshop

     
 

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