N.B. Many commercial corporations provide useful technical information.   Inclusion of commercial sites are only intended to provide a convenient link to such information.

A hodge podge of links to Microscopy Research Labs. & Facilities at UNC

Confocal Manufacturers

• Leica Systems

  Zeiss

  Biorad

  Nikon

  Olympus Fluoview  |  Realtime

  http://www.klughammer.de/

  Perkin Elmer

  Noran

A small collection of Confocal Facilities here and there

Web sites/pages of some who have used the Neuroscience Confocal

• Calin Tatu
• Dr. E. Salmon
•  

Web sites of Labs. that do imaging

• UNC Medical Image Display & Analysis Group
• Dr. E. Salmon

General UNC Links

• ATN - Academic Technology & Networks
• OIS -
• Biochemistry and Biophysics
• Biology | Salman lab.
• Cell Biology and Anatomy | Cell & Molecular Imaging Facility  | CMIF | Molecular Imaging Core
• Cell & Molecular Physiology | Physiology Imaging & Neuroscience Confocal Facility | Milram lab.
• Center for Instructional Technology
• Center for Mathematics and Science Education
• Chemistry
• Computer Science | Graphics-Image Cluster
• Hazardous Materials Recycling Information
• Mathematics
• Mathematics and Science Education Network
• Music
• Neuroscience Center  | Physiology Imaging & Neuroscience Confocal Facility
• Neurosurgery
• Pathology | Microscopy Services Laboratory
• Pharmacology
• Physics
• Tissue Culture Facility
• WUNC-FM Radio

U.N.C. Resources

• ATN - Control Center: contact info. penalty boxes etc.
• Medical Illustrations
• State of NC software contract
• ITS Security
• ATN Software Acquisition Office
• WindowsNT Standards

Manuals / Tutorials

• Photoshop - for beginners from Health Science Library at U.N.C.
• Photoshop 5 & 6 - more advanced from ATN at U.N.C.

Tissue Issues  

Books & References

Optics

•    International Society of Optical Engineering

• Anchor optical surplus

Fluorophores

• Table of Fluorochromes from Salk Flow Cytometry home page

•       http://www.chroma.com/
•    http://www.omegafilters.com/
•     Glossary of technical optical fluorescence terms:
•  

•       http://www.probes.com/
•     http://www.probes.com/lit/bioprobes31/
•      Technical notes

      Confocal Protocols

• Amersham

• Jackson Immuno    
  • Cross talk considerations

• Clonetech - GFPs Excitation and Emission

Cell Chambers

• Cell MicroControls - also temperature control systems - solution level controller
• http://www.bioptechs.com/
• http://www.medicalsystems.com/products/prodtype/cellhand.htm#LU-CB1
• http://www.medicalsystems.com/products/prodtype/cellhand.htm#PDMI-2

3D-Reconstruction & Confocal

• Stanford - Biocomp
• Marvin Minsky - "Memoir on Inventing the Confocal Scanning Microscope"
• Looking inside cells and tissues by optical sectioning with a confocal laser scanning microscope.
• Zoology, U. of Washington - 3-D computer reconstructions of early fruit fly embryos

3D-Deconvolution

• XCOSM   old xcosm
• VayTek
• Scanalytics
• AppliedPrecission
• Bitplane AG

General Image Processing/Analysis

• http://rsb.info.nih.gov/nih-image/ - (Also Image-J is here)
• NIH Image : Use In Fluorescence and Confocal Microscopy
• Fundamentals of Image Processing
• The Image Processing Tool Kit by C & John Russ
• Convergent evolution?   http://www.tiff-tools.com/

Commercial Microscopy

• Resolution - Digital Volumetric Imaging

Antibodies

• Kevin Shreder, is a "a multi-disciplinary resource on antibodies for both novices and experts."
• Perkin-Elmer, Antibodies: from design to assay
• Cytokines
• Sternberger Monoclonals Inc.

Optical Hardware

• UNIBLITZ® Shutters from Vincent Associates

Cat Care

• http://www.fabcats.org/

Drugs man!

• http://www.ukans.edu/~acu/chapter5.html
• http://www.med.stanford.edu/school/CompMed/Resource/anesthetics-rats.html
• http://www.med.stanford.edu/school/CompMed/Resource/veterinary.html

UNC

• George - 6 2523
• Trish Ellis - 6 2908

50 MW ~= 1 kiloton  
980-1100 calories/g
exactly 1012 calories (4.186x10^¹² joules).

Optical Light Bulbs (Including HBO, Halogens)

• Specialty Optical Systems   1.800.443.7101

Laser Manufacturers

• Melles Griot | Lasers | Laser Principles
• Point Source | laser theory
• Spectra Physics | Laser Products
• Coherent Lasers

AOTF Suppliers

• http://www.intraaction.com/ Interaction
• http://www.a-a.fr/ AA Electronic
• http://www.brimrose.com/ Brimrose
• http://www.isomet.com Isomet
• http://neostech.com/ Neos
• http://auroraphotonicsinc.com/ Aurora Photonics
•  

Air Dryers

• http://www.parker.com/balston

Hardare Technical Notes

• Tech Net (circuits, pin outs etc.)

Latitude/Longitude

• http://www.ecf.toronto.edu/~mao/

Museums

• Animals & Plants, Museums, etc at Karolinska Institute

Education

• Did you know?  |  RECURRING SCIENCE MISCONCEPTIONS IN K-6 TEXTBOOKS 
• Richard Feyman
• Free Argonne software helps children learn basic arithmetic skills

Libraries

• National Institute of Health Library
• UNC Libraries
• Duke Libraries

PC Hardware / Software

• PC Hardware reviews/information
• PC Software information
• Tech Net (circuits, pin outs etc.)

Postage

Societies

• Microscopy Society of America

Last updated 07/31/2003

					© 1998-2003 Michael Chua, Cell & Molecular Physiology, UNC.  All rights reserved.
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