Facility Manager: Andrew Vaughan (andrew.vaughan@ucl.ac.uk). Tell us about your project.To arrange a meeting to discuss your requirements, or to be trained on facility microscopes, please use this web form to tell us about your project. Alternatively, you can arrange an informal chat by sending an email to our contact address: lmcb-lm-help@ucl.ac.uk.

Click on the images below to compare the resolutions possible using different super-resolution techniques. Access charge is £33£30.2842/hr.

Instant SIM (iSIM)

Instant SIM is a technique pioneered by York et al and developed commercially by Visitech International Ltd. The concept uses the Image Scanning Microscopy (ISM) approach described mathematically by Colin Sheppard in 1988. The technology creates a super-resolution image in analogue form using optics alone so that the image produced by the camera requires no reconstruction, although deconvolution improves the resolution further.

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