Light Sheet Microscopy

SmartSPIM​

The SmartSPIM light sheet microscope provides unparalleled resolution and acquisition speed throughout intact tissue volumes, while its modular design allows you to upgrade and customize individual components.
Key highlights and features include:

  • Patented axial sweeping technology, which generates homogenous PSFz across field of view
  • Rapid volumetric acquisition (intact mouse brain hemisphere in <30 minutes)
  • Large imaging chamber and dual illumination, optimized for large (up to 40mm x 75mm) or multi-sample acquisition – easily image organoids, rat brains, entire juvenile mice, & everything in between
  • Focus compensation and tunable imaging parameters
  • Intuitive acquisition software with real-time tile correction
  • Objectives available for 1.63X through 22X magnification
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MegaSPIM

The MegaSPIM microscope is our newest light sheet imaging system. Utilizing the same powerful axial sweeping technology as SmartSPIM, MegaSPIM is optimized for imaging not only laterally large samples, but thin slices and arrays of small tissues as well. Unique highlights and features include:

  • Capacity for lateral sample sizes up to 200 mm x 200 mm –  easily image expanded tissues, large slabs, and arrays of organoids, slices, or whole rodent organs
  • Custom mounting solutions for a variety of sample types
  • High-throughput multicolor acquisition with dual cameras and independent focus correction
  • Post-processing tools to deskew and stitch your data into complete ready-to-analyze volumes
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Recent publications citing LifeCanvas light sheet microscopy

Experience-dependent information routing through the basolateral amygdala shapes behavioral outcomes

Pantelis Antonoudiou, Bradly T. Stone, Phillip L.W. Colmers, Aidan Evans-Strong, Eric Teboul, Najah L. Walton, Grant L. Weiss, Jamie Maguire.

Journal:
Cell Reports
Publication Date:
Research Area:
Neural Circuits
Tissue Species:
Mouse
Tissue Type:
Brain
Products Cited:
SHIELD, SmartSPIM
Serine racemase deletion alters adolescent social behavior and whole-brain cFos activation

Stephanie E. Brown, Ziyi (Zephyr) Wang, Emily L. Newman, Elif Engin, Sabina Berretta, Darrick T. Balu, Oluwarotimi O. Folorunso.

Journal:
Frontiers in Psychiatry
Publication Date:
Research Area:
cFos, Mapping
Tissue Species:
Mouse
Tissue Type:
Heart
Products Cited:
SHIELD, SmartBatch+, SmartSPIM, CRO Services
Massively parallel in vivo Perturb-seq reveals celltype-specific transcriptional networks in cortical development

Xinhe Zheng, Boli Wu, Yuejia Liu, Sean K. Simmons, Kwanho Kim, Grace S. Clarke, Abdullah Ashiq, Joshua Park, Jiwen Li, Zhilin Wang, Liqi Tong, Qizhao Wang, Keerthi T. Rajamani, Rodrigo Muñoz-Castañeda, Shang Mu, Tianbo Qi, Yunxiao Zhang, Zi Chao Ngiam, Naoto Ohte, Carina Hanashima, Zhuhao Wu, Xiangmin Xu, Joshua Z. Levin, and Xin Jin.

Journal:
Cell Short Article
Publication Date:
Research Area:
Other
Tissue Species:
Mouse
Tissue Type:
Brain
Products Cited:
SmartSPIM
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