Nikon High Resolution Imaging Software for Confocal Microscope “NIS-Elements C-ER”
October 15, 2015
Nikon Corporation (Kazuo Ushida, President, Tokyo) is pleased to announce the release of the high resolution Confocal Imaging Software “NIS-Elements C-ER”* which provides resolution enhancement capability for confocal images.
Without changing the conventional confocal image acquisition procedure, users can easily achieve enhanced resolution by utilizing a unique image processing technology.
This product will be presented at “Neuroscience 2015 – Society of Neuroscience” (October 17 – 21 at Chicago, Il, United States.)
- *ER: Enhanced Resolution
Product information
| Name | Confocal Imaging Software “NIS-Elements C-ER” |
|---|---|
| Launch date | the end of October 2015 |
Product Concept
The application range of conventional confocal microscopes is very wide, and increasing the resolution is in high demand. To meet these demands, Nikon developed a Confocal Imaging Software “NIS-Elements C-ER” which can easily provide high resolution confocal images.
Main Features
1. Realization of high resolution confocal image
Image resolution is defined as the smallest distance between 2 points that can be resolved. The theoretical limit of a conventional optical microscope is approx. 200nm. Confocal microscopes potentially possess the capability of acquiring higher resolution images, but it has not been effectively achieved. Nikon has developed a new image processing technology to enable users to easily acquire higher resolution images using a confocal microscope.
2. Easy workflow
Generating high resolution confocal images can be realized with a single click of a button. The software assesses the captured image and automatically determines processing parameters to achieve enhanced resolution.
Image comparison between original confocal image and NIS-Elements C-ER processed image.
Apical surfaces of auditory epithelia of mouse cochleae were stained by Atto-565-phalloidin at postnatal day 2.
Dr. Hideru Togashi
Division of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine.
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