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Olympus FV1000 User guide August 3, 2011 Olympus FV1000 MPE Microscope User Guide A. System Start Up 1. Sign in to the log book. Indicate the laser lines you will use; visible laser and IR laser. 2. Turn on mercury lamp power supply 3. Turn on microscope controller and scanner. Microscope controller‐ switch ON Scanner – switch ON and turn Key to ON . 4. Turn on laser combiners . 5. Turn on laser power supplies Multi‐Ar : Switch to ON and turn Key to ON. HeNe : Turn Key to ON. 6. Turn on computer if it is not on. 7. Enter user name/password to log on to Windows XP. 8. Start the FV10‐ASW program and enter User ID and password. ...
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Olympus FV1000 User guide August 3, 2011 B. Outline of Acquisition Setting / Image Acquisition/ Image Viewer Windows ...
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Olympus FV1000 User guide August 3, 2011 Folder/File Explorer Data manager: displays metadata containing acquisition parameters. C. Viewing with Transmitted or Epifluorescence Light Before scanning the sample with laser light, look at the sample and find the region of interest first with either transmitted or fluorescent light. Click on transmitted light button for transmitted light viewing or on epifluorescence light button for fluorescence viewing (Before click on the light button you will used, click off the pressed button first). Turn the filter wheel to #6 (DICT) for transmitted light viewing, or to #3 (Green NIBA), 4 (Red WIG), or 5 (DAPI) for fluorescent light viewing. Open the ...
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Olympus FV1000 User guide August 3, 2011 D. Image Acquisition Click off the light source button to turn off the non‐laser light. Click on Dye list button and double click on the fluorescent dyes you want to use (e.g. FITC and TRITC) from the list. Click Apply button (if Assign Dye Manually button is checked, uncheck before pressing Apply button). It will activate the laser lines and set detection channels up according to the dyes you selected. Choose Image size (default‐ 512x512) from Size panel . Press button (if not pressed) to automatically adjust HV and Offset values according to the scan speed change. Click button to scan the sample. It will scan fast at 2 us/pixel and show low‐quality (pixelated) image in a Live View window. ...
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Olympus FV1000 User guide August 3, 2011 You can optimize the image quality with Hi‐Lo LUT (Look‐Up Table). Click LUT button to bring the LUT control window and select Channel and click Hi‐Lo button (Ctrl‐H shortcut key will do the same without opening LUT window). Now the image is displayed using this specific look‐up table where red pixels represent intensity beyond scale (saturated) and blue pixels represent 0 pixel value. To maximize the signal‐to‐noise ratio of the image, adjust the acquisition setting (laser power level, HV, Offset) such that the image shows a few red and blue pixels while you are scanning. Often excitation/emission profiles of fluorophores you are using may be close, so there could be possible bleed‐through of a fluorophore emission to neighboring channel. To minimize this, the detecting range of each channel can be adjusted by changing Spectral Setting. Click on , it will bring Spectral Setting window. Change the range of spectrum for each channel (CHS1 and CHS2) by sliding, widening, or narrowing the tabs or arrowheads. Use Area panel to rotate and zoom the imaging area (click on 0 and 1 buttons to return to the original viewing area). To rotate the viewing area, click on the red dot and drag clock‐ or counter‐clockwise. With zoomed view, you can select the scanning area by moving the blue‐lined box around. To zoom a specific region in, click icon and draw a box on the live view area. It will zoom in the area specifically. Once you are satisfied with the setting, stop scanning. Set the scan speed to slow rates (~10‐12.5us/pixel) (the slower the speed set, the better the signal‐to‐noise ratio, but the more bleaching). Click XY button to acquire an image. When acquisition is done, a 2D view window will appear. E. Z‐Series Image Acquisition Use this mode to obtain optical section through the depth (z dimension) of your sample that can be used for 3D visualization. Click ...
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Olympus FV1000 User guide August 3, 2011 Click Stop button. Adjust the Scan Speed if needed, click Depth button (“Z” will be appear on the XY button to become XYZ), and then click XYZ button. When acquisition is done, Append Next/SeriesDone button will appear over the Stop button. Click Append Next button to add additional sections at next step (enter the number of series you want to add) or click SeriesDone to finish the acquisition. Save the image. F. Sequential Scanning Mode Use sequential scanning to prevent possible cross‐talk and/or bleed‐through between the emissions of the fluorophores you used. Check the Sequential box and it will bring up the sequential scan information window. Choose between Line or Frame mode . Line: by line‐by‐line, it scans one channel with only a specific laser line and detector on and then sequentially scans the next channel with only a another laser line and detector on. Frame: it scans sequentially frame‐by‐frame; it finishes scanning one channel first and then scans the next channel. If there is no bleed‐through between the emissions of some fluorophores you are using, you can group them together to scan them simultaneously as a group. Simply click on the fluorophore name on the list and drag to the other group. ...
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Olympus FV1000 User guide August 3, 2011 G. Saving and Exporting Images 1. Click on the image window to be saved. 2. Click on icon or select File/Save or Save as from menu. 3. A Save as window will appear. In case the image should be saved in the Image folder of a Log‐in user, click on button and it will direct to your image folder. Select Olympus Image Binary Format *.oib file type, type file name, and click on Save button. (Log‐in user and its associate folder will be created as you become self‐user). 4. To set up your image folder where you can jump directly by clicking My Image Folder button, select Tools/Option menu. Click General tab and specify the path of your image folder with Browse.. button. [Upon creating a user account, each user will have its own folder in D drive (Do not create any folder in C drive.). Click OK button. 5. Oib file type contains all the metadata including all the acquisiotn parameters and it can be opened in FV10‐ASW program. The light version of this program is available for installing in user’s own computer. Otherwise, the image file can be exported as other file format so that it can be opened and processed in other imaging software. To export images: ...
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Olympus FV1000 User guide August 3, 2011 3. File/Export command brings a window with different options. This command will export images into a folder that contain individual images of each channel, z‐steps, or time‐points. Select File type for export. ROI Overlay section allows saving the file with ROI information. Output Format : RGB Color: the red, green, and blue channel will be saved in color as individual *.tif files in a folder. c RGB Color + Gray Scale box checked: the color channels will be saved in gray scale as *.tif files in a folder. Merge Channel: a single merged color image will be saved as a *.tif file. Frame Rate determine the play speed of the movie when the file is exported as AVI. Check the AVI box to compress the movie file. 4. Check the Save Properties As ASCII Text button if you export the metatdata. Click Save button. 5. Transfer your image data to CD or USB flash memory. ...
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Olympus FV1000 User guide August 3, 2011 G. System Shut‐Down Procedure Wipe off the oil from any oil objectives you have used during your session. Logging off and transferring data. 1. Exit the FV10‐ASW program. 2. Make sure that you transfer your image file to CD or USB flash memory. All image files more than a month old will be removed during monthly clean‐up. 3. Log off Windows XP. If someone signs up for use within a next 1 hour or so, leave the system ON. If not, shut down the system as follows. Shutting Off the system. 1. Shut down the computer . 2. Turn the mercury lamp off . 3. Turn the microscope controller key to OFF and turn off both scanner and controller I/O switches . e 4. Turn off the laser combiners , FV10‐MCPSU and FV10‐MP‐LCU. 5. Turning off the Multi‐Ar laser by turning the key ...