The W. M. Keck Three-Dimensional Fusion Microscope
Josef Kerimo, Ph.D.
Keck Facility Manager, CenSSIS
Northeastern University
302 Stearns
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
phone: 617.373.2589
fax: 617.373.7783
Developed byWelcome
Keck 3D Fusion Microscope is housed in the CenSSIS Laboratory. Along with other equipment there, it provides a testbed for new imaging ideas in collaboration between biologists and engineers. BioBED is a Northeastern University shared resource between Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biology. The microscope allows us to image samples with at least 5 different modalities (DIC, CRM, LSCM, TPLSM, and QTM) on the same stage. Learn more ยป
Future Directions
We are in the process of upgrading our available lasers and filter sets to include a wider variety of excitation and emission capabilities.
We are also in the process of developing a reflective QTM system. As transmissive QTM (which we presently run) measures the relative optical path length through a sample, reflective QTM measures the optical path length to a reflective object and back. This methodology will allow us to retrieve topological data using a continuous wave laser for illumination, and dynamic topographical information using a pulsed laser, using the low levels of light that minimize cell exposure/damage.
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CenSSIS has been a National Science Foundation Cross-disciplinary Engineering Research Center since 2000.
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