Upcoming Webinars
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Quantitative Image and Data Acquisition for Fluorescent Specimens -- Advice from a Facility Director
Presenter Name: Brian Matsumoto, Ph.D. (University of California, Santa Barbara)
January 7, 2008
Monday at
01:30 PM (New York Time)
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Attendees will learn about issues affecting the quantitative accuracy of fluorescence images acquired through a microscope and will pick up tips and suggestions for improving image quality, making better use of the camera's light collection abilities, and will learn the nomenclature associated with digital imaging. Attendees will leave with a better understanding of how to characterize and optimize their optical system, camera, and software. Bring your questions to this live, interactive web-based seminar.
- What is bit depth and when/why does it matter?
What is dynamic range?
Characterizing your camera's linear range.
Noise and other sources of data uncertainty.
Maximizing your camera's light collection capabilities.
Setting the best exposures.
Correcting for photobleaching.
Collecting images in 3D.
Provided free of charge, this webinar is sponsored by MAG, the Microimaging Applications Group. MAG is a group of imaging companies who work together to provide an unparalleled range of microimaging solutions to science and industry.
About the Presenter:
Brian Matsumoto, Ph.D. is the Director of the Integrated Microscopy Facility and is an Associate Adjunct Professor for the department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Department at the University of California Santa Barbara. He is the author of Basic Methods in Light Microscopy (Cambridge University Press) and editor of Cell Biological Applications of Confocal Microscopy (Academic Press).
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