Advanced Microscopy and Imaging for All

Olympus has introduced the all-in-one FSX100 fluorescence and FluoView FV10i confocal laser scanning microscope systems to enable even the most inexperienced users to create high-end research images. The all-in-one microscopes are designed to remove all of the complex steps involved in setting-up and using advanced fluorescence and confocal microscopes, ensuring that users can concentrate on the images and data without any prior expertise in the control of the numerous microscope components involved.

• Set-Select-Capture: By coupling high quality microscopy and imaging hardware with precision automation and advanced software, the Olympus FSX100 and FluoView FV10i present simplified workflows so that users can obtain high quality images and image series by: loading their sample; defining their observation mode and regions of interest (ROI); and then capturing their images: as simple as Set-Select-Capture.
• Motorised and Automated: All components are motorised and controlled via software, ensuring that functions such as focusing, exposure, fluorescence wavelength selection and even cover slip thickness correction are automated so the user does not have to touch the microscope at all. As a result, advanced imaging processes such as time-lapses, Z-stacks and multi-position image capture can be carried out with ease and even combined to provide true multi-dimensional imaging.
• Self-Contained: The Olympus FSX100 and FV10i all-in-one microscopes enclose all the required components in a compact and self-contained unit. This means that they can be placed on the bench at the point of discovery, or easily transported to wherever they are needed. Furthermore, the stage is completely enclosed and therefore provides full darkroom facilities, ensuring maximum imaging sensitivity.
• Intuitive Software: The user-friendly software systems guide users through the whole imaging process. From an overview scan, scientists select their regions of interest and the microscope zooms in, optimising the image and presenting the user with a series of intuitive tools for imaging the sample. These enable the selection of the observation method; viewing the different fluorescence and brightfield channels; navigating around the sample; manually controlling focus and exposure; as well as controlling laser intensity and applying real-time noise reduction. Settings from existing images can be reapplied to the instrument for imaging new samples, ensuring excellent experimental consistency.