Introduction to our MP microscopes

The movie embedded below gives a practical introduction to our two multi-photon microscopes, Hooke and Göppert. If you watch it directly on this web page, please go to full screen mode, otherwise the resolution won't be good enough. For full screen mode, start the movie first, then click on the symbol in the right lower corner of the movie (appears when you hover over it).

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Table of contents

00:36 System layout
09:47 Powering up the system
15:30 Basic software overview
39:02 Putting the sample under the objective
54:10 Recording the first image
1:14:23 Options to display the image data
1:21:10 Sequential scanning with two excitation wavelengths
1:35:32 Saving and loading your settings
1:38:19 Saving image data to hard disk
1:42:00 Improving image quality with averaging and accumulation (part 1)
1:47:00 Hybrid detectors (HyDs), standard and counting mode
1:54:34 Improving image quality with averaging and accumulation (part 2)
2:01:00 The Navigator (short overview)
2:04:30 Shutting the system down

Version 1.0.1, 2020-07-21

Please go to full screen mode, otherwise the resolution won't be good enough.

For full screen mode, start the movie first, then click on the symbol in the right lower corner of the movie (appears when you hover over it).