The image is actually a composite of many individual images taken with a confocal microscope. Confocals only capture light from a single plane of focus, so each individual image is like an optical ...

Confocal microscopy image of human embryonic kidney cells. Nanoparticles filled with human immunoglobulin were delivered to the cells. The cell nucleus is blue, endosomes (which sequester ...

Confocal microscope image reveals distinct patterns of the actin in bone cells. Actin is a cytoskeletal protein that is important for cells to adhere to surfaces, and to move. Actin filaments are ...

Building on this, confocal microscopes can produce three dimensional (3-D) images, as well as the standard two-dimensional (2-D) visualizations most microscopes provide. Because the confocal ...

The microscope can create three-dimensional internal images of transparent specimens. In addition, unlike some other high-resolution imaging technologies, confocal microscopy requires only minimal, ...

The Leica SME Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope images 4 channels with excitation wavelengths of 405, 488, 563, and 633 nm. Channels are sequentially imaged using a tunable emission filter. The ...

In confocal microscopy a laser beam is focused to a specific depth within a sample, and similarly to ordinary light microscopes, any reflected or emitted light is detected by a properly positioned ...

A new microscope created by researchers at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid has the ability to take fast 3D images, making it easier to observe cells in living animals over time. For example ...

Due to the small depth of focus, confocal microscopes are also able to focus a few micrometres through samples to build up a 3D image. In microscopy there is a trade-off between resolution and the ...

The project tested its platform by imaging whole C. elegans worms between 500 and 800 microns long, too large to easily image all at once with a traditional confocal microscope. The Multi-Z technique ...