Leica TCS SP5
Application Suite Powers Up Broadband Confocal
15 June 2006: The recently introduced unique Broadband Confocal Leica TCS SP5, which combines high resolution and high-speed confocal imaging in one system, has now been enriched with multiple applications as part of the “Leica Application Suite Advanced Fluorescence (LAS AF)”. These enhancements support the growing need in Life Science Research to extract meaningful, reproducible data from experiments on confocal systems.
Application wizards for Molecular Distance and Interaction Analysis, FRET AB (Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer – Acceptor Bleaching) and FRET SE (Sensitized Emission), guide the user step by step through the experiment up to the final result in an easy way.
A FRAP (Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching) wizard enables bleaching experiments and photoactivation, including the proprietary Flymode FRAP for highest synchronized time resolution.
The new user friendly Live Data Mode package enables interactive physiological analysis with flexible sequencing of experiments and online quantification in a graphical macro environment. In conjunction with the high-performance Leica TCS SP5 platform, the applications turn the system into powerful workstations for analytical biology.
The Leica TCS SP5 unites the two worlds of real time, live cell functional imaging and highest resolution structural imaging in a single, truly confocal, configurable and seamlessly upgradeable platform from entry level to Multiphoton. As a result, the Leica TCS SP5 features the broadest band of imaging speeds and resolutions ever available in one confocal microscope (from 1 to 16.000 lines/second and up to 64 megapixels per image). As a true single point confocal system(?), it is the only system to combine fast frame rates, best resolution and depth imaging with full multi-channel capabilities.
Simultaneously to the introduction of the SP5 confocal platform, Leica Microsystems has also introduced a high speed widefield camera system AF6000 for live cell imaging including a suite of quantitative applications. Both the confocal and widefield products share the same graphical user interface and thus make it easy for users of both platforms to work with the systems.
With the successful introduction of the broadband confocal and the widefield platforms Leica Microsystems has once more demonstrated its ability of true innovation in microscopy
For further information, please contact:
Miss Candice Fauter
Marketing
Leica Microsystems (UK) Ltd
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