(Olympus: Center Valley, PA) -- Olympus has premiered its IX3 line of inverted research microscopes, three systems that offer researchers flexibility to customize their microscopes. The systems offer precision, stability, and optical performance to meet challenging quantitative measurement applications, along with user friendliness, speed, accuracy, and rugged reliability.
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Newly introduced are the IX83, a fully automated high-end research microscope platform; the IX73 modular microscope system that can be configured in manual, semimotorized, or motorized versions; and the IX53 system microscope, designed for quick and efficient routine examination of multiple tissue samples.
The series allows users total customization to meet current research demands, while providing flexibility to grow as their needs change. The stands provide a choice of manual control; encoded manual; semimotorized operation; or fully automated, high-speed motorization. The IX83 and IX73 are designed with a multistory optical deck area that can be configured with one or two decks for inserting various optical components. The decks allow rapid plug-and-play insertion of magnification changers, filter turrets, a right-side port, or other options. Both decks open out like file cabinet drawers for easy accessibility.
Beyond flexibility, the IX3 is a great platform for live-cell imaging. The new systems offer a higher level of mechanical and thermal stability than Olympus IX2 microscopes. The stands are built on a new frame designed for exceptional rigidity and thermal stability. A low-profile ultrasonic motorized stage provides quiet, smooth, precise movement. All three systems employ the company’s proprietary UIS2 optics, which deliver ultra-sharp, bright images and are manufactured from lead-free glass. The Real-Time Controller delivers precision in high-speed imaging, with microsecond timing accuracy for high-speed devices such as light sources, triggered cameras, and other TTL-controlled devices. A new fly-eye fluorescence illuminator provides even, bright illumination across the specimen, allowing a much wider field of view and filling the chips of even large-format cameras.
In addition, the IX83 is available with third-generation Olympus Zero Drift focus compensation (ZDC) technology, which allows accurate, consistent focusing during time-lapse experiments. The Zero Drift system can even operate without a computer in stand-alone mode. IX3 systems help streamline complex imaging and measurement tasks; for example, using the IX83’s touch-panel interface, users manage virtually every operation of the microscope or even complex macros with just a touch of a button with cellSens imaging software.
“Scientists will love the deck structure and the flexibility it gives them to customize their system and grow as their research changes,” says Michael Lewis, director of product marketing, Scientific Equipment Group, at Olympus America. “And the fly-eye illumination, stability, fast operation, and easy controls all help deliver Olympus’ optical performance for advanced imaging and quantitative measurement applications.”
For more information on the Olympus IX3 line of research inverted microscopes, click here or call James Sanzo at (484) 896–3312.
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