Fluorescence microscope with enhanced deconvolution (structured illumination and optical sectioning) imaging capabilities

我们正在申请资金，以购买一台电动聚焦的立式复合荧光显微镜、一台高分辨率数码相机、结构照明/光学切片（SI/OS）硬件、软件和计算机，这将提供增强的去卷积成像能力。这一工具将在Mt.阿利森大学，将是唯一的显微镜在新玩法与这种成像能力。所有五个申请人的研究方案能否成功，关键取决于能否获得这种成像能力。拟议的设备将提供共焦显微镜所需的所有能力，大大降低了初始、维护和旅行费用。通过取消差旅和维修支出而节省的费用可用于生产性研究。

We are requesting funding for an upright compound fluorescence microscope with motorized focus, a high-resolution digital camera, structured illumination/optical sectioning (SI/OS) hardware, software and computer, which will provided enhanced deconvolution imaging capacity. This instrument will be used as a shared inter-departmental resource at Mt. Allison University and would be the only microscope in New Brunswick with such imaging capability. The success of the research programmes of all five applicants is critically dependent on access to such imaging capabilities. The proposed equipment will provide all of the required capabilities of a confocal microscope, at substantially reduced initial, maintenance and travel cost. Cost savings from the elimination of travel and maintenance expenditures could be directed to productive research.