Rigorous, Reliable, Reproducible
Prepared fluorescent slides to quickly set-up, demonstrate and troubleshoot your microscope
Mouse Colon: Maximum projection image of a 100 micron liver slice with nuclei (blue), blood vessels (cyan), enteric neurons (green) and white blood cells (magenta).
Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopy, 10x objective lens
Why OptiSlides?
You can’t sell the top-end technologies of your microscope without slides that highlight them
AND
Relying on client samples can end in disaster
Created by Scientists for Scientists
4 and 5 colour slides — we even have spectral!
Tissues up to 400 microns thick
Super resolution targets
Multiple Tissues…more than just the kidney
Can be used on nearly any light microscope
Brightfield, Widefield, Darkfield, Polarized light, Confocal, Multiphoton and STED Super resolution
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The Slides
Mouse Fibroblast: Image of a fibroblast with nuclei (blue), focal adhesions (cyan), peroxisomes (magenta) and stress fibres (grey).
Widefield, 60x objective lens
Cells
4 colour
Near infrared (740Atto)
Sub-resolution target: Peroxisomes are ≈150nm
Customizable
Replaces outdated 3 colour slides
Mouse Liver: Maximum projection image of a 50 micron liver slice with nuclei (blue), Kupffer cells (cyan), vimentin labeling the bile duct (yellow) and blood vessels (magenta).
Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopy, 10x objective lens
Tissues
Up to 4 colours
100, 200 and 400 micron thickness
Colon is our standard tissue slide.
Liver, lung, lymph node, brain, heart, spleen, testes…and if you really want it, the kidney are available upon request
Replaces thin, 3 colour kidney slides
Stone Pine Needle: Stone Pine needles express many proteins that are excited and fluoresce across the spectrum from UV to near infrared.
Widefield Slide Scanner, tiled image, 20x objective lens
Stone Pine Needle
Can be used on nearly every system!
Multicolour autofluorescence from the UV to the NIR
Yes - it fluoresces in the far red!
Distinct features in each channel
Up to 400 microns thickness
Replaces convallaria slide
Detailed specifications are found on each slide page in the OptiSlides Store
What people are saying about OptiSlides
Quick to find, quick to focus (Stone Pine Needle)
They just work
The far red is gorgeous — and so bright! (Stone Pine Needle)
We use an OptiSlide first, so we know the microscope works, then we look at client samples
You can tell a microscopist made this, it even has a balance label!
The case stands out, making it easy to find in the lab
I asked for a single slide that I could use to teach basic, intermediate and advanced microscopy. They gave me the Stone Pine Needle and it does it all!
