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Nikon NSTORM - Shut-down and clean up
When you are done imaging, remove your sample from the microscope and place it on a kimwipe or ot...
Nikon NSTORM - Basic Set-up
Getting the system ready If the microscope is off, turn on the microscope following the prot...
How to choose the correct filter cube for your experiment
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Reporting damage
The ALMC is a shared resource used by many researchers and labs throughout CU Boulder. It is ther...
Basic guidelines
The following are some suggested guidelines for handling your data. Please feel free to contact u...
Cleaning an oil immersion microscope objective
Adding oil to an oil immersion objective
Gaining facility access
The workflow below described how to gain access the instrumentation and resources found within ...
Using the Perfect Focus System (PFS)
The perfect focus system locates the coverslip and continually adjusts the objective height to fo...
Moving the sample
The microscope contains a motorized stage which moves the sample. The stage is controlled using t...
Basic use
This protocol covers the basics of mounting your sample on the microscope and setting up the perf...
Cleaning up
It is important that you clean up after yourself after using the microscope, as well as transferr...
Using the ND acquisition panel
This page describes how to use the ND acquisition panel to set up more complex imaging, including...
Acquiring a single image
This protocol explains how to take a simple image with just a single frame and a single channel. ...
Adjusting the lookup tables
When acquiring images, the camera records the intensity of light falling on each pixel. This resu...
Changing the optical configuration
The following sections describe the different settings that can be changed for each channel. Thes...
Using Live View
In live view, the microscope will continuously acquire images, allowing you to preview settings a...