Links
Other interesting sites
Applied Molecular Imaging Erasmus (AMIE) Imaging with a larger field of view and a much deeper penetration can be done in the facility for molecular imaging with PET, SPECT, CT, MRI, Ultrasound, Optical scanners (Ivis, FMT) http://www.erasmusmc.nl/amie/
Virtual Microscope Automated virtual microscope click here in the Erasmus MC, contact person Peter Riegman
Microscope Manufacturers
Zeiss Lots of information about the Zeiss confocal microscopes. The LSM viewer can be downloaded by selecting Download under the header Good to know / have. You will also find the fluorescent Dye Database here www.zeiss.de/lsm for LSM and www.zeiss.de/fcs for FCS
Olympus Very informative site about confocal imaging, With interactive tutorials http://www.olympusfluoview.com/theory/index.html
Nikon Very informative site about microscopy with interactive tutorials www.microscopyu.com based on the site of Molecular Expression
Leicahttp://www.leica-microsystems.nl/
Software
ImageJ One of the best free general image processing packages, should be installed on every computer http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij
Fiji a complete set of ImageJ plugins including ImageJ http://fiji.sc/wiki/index.php/Fiji
SVI Huygens deconvolution software. Deconvolution can be used to get the highest resoltion out of your data. SVI also has a free rendering software package called FreeSFP www.svi.nl
Other interesting links
Molecular Expression, site with lot of imaging information, also interactive tutorials http://molecularexpressions.com
NVvM Nederlandse Vereniging voor Microscopie, Dutch society for microscopy www.microscopie.nl
Invitrogen Introduction to fluorescence with a online slideshow http://probes.invitrogen.com/resources/education
Zeiss Education in Microscopy and Digital Imaginghttp://zeiss-campus.magnet.fsu.edu/