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This upright laser scanning confocal microscope has 2-Photon capability, which provides the ability to perform intravital imaging and second harmonic generation (SHG) imaging. Intravital imaging is further facilitated by the four non-descanned hybrid detectors, resonant scanner, and special 20x 1.0 NA and 25x 0.9 NA dipping lenses on this system.
Purchase of this instrument was made possible by NIH grant S10 OD021633-01. Please acknowledge this funding source on any publications that include work performed on the Leica SP8 Multiphoton Confocal.
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The cross section of ascending aorta shown here was imaged by SHG microscopy to show fibrillar collagen (blue).
This image was taken on the Penn Vet Imaging Core’s Leica SP5 2-Photon microscope with a 20x (1.0 NA) water immersion lens. A Coherent Chameleon Ti:Sapphire laser was used to illuminate the tissue section with infrared light.
Second harmonic signal from fibrillar collagen, which is half the wavelength of the illuminating light, was then collected into non-descanned detector NDD1.
Additional images of tissue autofluorescence were simultaneously acquired in wavelengths within the ranges of 495-560 and 560-619 (NDD2 and NDD3; pseudocolored green and red, respectively). Autofluorescence was present in all three channels and combined to form a grayish color in the image overlay shown here, differentiating the SHG signal (present only in the blue channel) from autofluorescence.
Image courtesy of James Monslow and Ellen Puré, Dept. of Animal Biology, UPenn School of Veterinary Medicine.
This movie shows a 3D reconstruction of scanning laser confocal images of a hydrogel (red) with silica particles (green).
The images were acquired on the Penn Vet Imaging Core’s Leica SP5 upright confocal/multiphoton microscope with a 20x (1.0 NA) water immersion lens. The 488 nm Argon laser and 543 nm HeNe laser were used to illuminate the sample and the fluorescence emitted was collected with the internal spectral detectors.
The image Z-stack was rendered into the 3D image shown here with Volocity software from Perkin Elmer, accessed through the core’s Volocity license server.
Image courtesy of Gaoxiang Wu and Shu Yang, UPenn School of Engineering and Applied Science.
For this image, SHG microscopy was used to visualize fibrillar collagen (green) in a section of skin at the epidermal and dermal junction, with a hair follicle visible in the middle of the field.
This image was taken on the Penn Vet Imaging Core’s Leica SP5 2-Photon microscope with a 20x (1.0 NA) water immersion lens. Fibrillar collagen present in the section combined 900 nm wavelength photons from a Coherent Chameleon Ti:Sapphire laser into light of 450 nm wavelength, which was then collected into non-descanned detector NDD1.
An additional image of tissue autofluorescence was simultaneously acquired for wavelengths within the range 495-560 nm (NDD2; pseudocolored red). In the overlay shown here, autofluorescence collected by both detectors combined to form an orange color, whereas SHG signal was only detected by NDD1 and therefore appears as green in the image overlay.
Image courtesy of Ashley Case, Becky Brisson, and Susan Volk, Dept. of Clinical Studies, UPenn School of Veterinary Medicine.