Optiscan F900e confocal system

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From: Jan W�chtler
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 00:00

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I am interested in any comments concerning the Optiscan F900e confocal
laser scanning system.

Optiscan seems to offer an unbeatable price of about 70k US$, compared to
120-200k of other companies. I would like to know if this is reflected in
the quality and performance of this product?

One differnce I noticed is the invariable pinhole size. I suppose it is
preset to a value giving good z-resolution and therefore low light-levels.
Is this a practical disadvantage?

The F900 is distributed in the US by AxonInstruments and by Optiscan
(autralia) elsewhere, but there is no german (european?) distributor. Does
anybody in europe already use this system? If so, is there good technical
support?


thanks, Jan

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Jan Waechtler
Dept. of Physiology                 jan.waechtler@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
University of Munich                      Tel: +49 89 5996 245
D-80336 Munich, Germany                   Fax: +49 89 5996 216

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From: jan.waechtler@lrz.uni-muenchen.de (Jan W�chtler)
Subject: Optiscan F900e confocal system
Date: 1996/02/06
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