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Big Features in a Small Package
OptiGrid affords benchtop access to research quality
confocal imaging with a myriad of benefits to meet today’s
research imaging needs.
Designed for Experiment Automation
Decrease imaging time and ensure greater experiment repeatability
across multiple specimens with automated grid focus. You can image
across multiple wavelengths (well into Deep UV), without stopping to
manually refocus the grid.
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Simple Integration
Simply connect OptiGrid to your
computer; insert the grid slider into
the standard illuminator of your
compatible upright or inverted widefield
microscope, and control OptiGrid
through the growing list of supporting
software suites.
Streamlined Connectivity
Newly redesigned for state-of-theart
USB connectivity, OptiGrid no
longer requires costly and complicated
integration of a D/A board as with
previous versions.
Reduced Footprint
Redesigned amplifier grid box consumes
less of your valuable benchtop space.
Versatility and Lab Economy
Leverage the full potential of your
existing instruments. OptiGrid
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delivers confocal-quality imaging to a multitude of widefield
microscopes. Simply removing the grid slider from the field
diaphragm to restore full conventional functionality to your
microscope.
Flexibility
OptiGrid delivers virtually universal fluorochrome imaging capability.
All fluorescence capabilities of the host microscope are maintained.
When using fluorescence with the OptiGrid, the excitation/emission
filters and dichloric mirrors should be optimized to the specific
fluorophore.
Confocal Quality Imaging
The OptiGrid is a viable alternative to a confocal microscope for
imaging discrete objects such as cells in biological specimens.
“The OptiGrid Structured-Illumination Microscopy (SIM) can
perform with optical sectioning characteristics extremely close to,
and under ideal specimen conditions, identical to that of modern
confocal microscopes. High-resolution measurements show confocal
(imaging) to have slightly superior optical sectioning capability when
encountering refractive index changes in aqueous mounting media,
although this difference is unlikely to be discernable when imaging
biological specimens.”
OptiGrid Resolution Comparison White Paper
courtesy of Dr. Adam Puche, PhD
University of Maryland
June 2005
Download OptiGrid Resolution Comparison White Paper (PDF 700KB)
For more information on OptiGrid, Call +1 585 223-2370 or
to send a question or make a request, click here.
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