UVP iBox Explorer Imaging Microscope - Manual (Page 3)

iBox Explorer
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Introduction
The iBox Explorer
2
Imaging Microscope is designed to automate research with one-touch preset or user-defined PC
controls for accurate, repeatable imaging and analysis of animals and plants. The iBox Explorer 2 incorporates a light
tight darkroom with VisionWorks

LS Acquisition & Analysis software for automated control. The system provides a
wide range of magnification settings, allowing visualization from an entire small animal down to the cellular level
subcutaneously and within the body cavity of living mice.
The darkroom has a door-mounted viewing window, four-position emission filter tray with four emission filters
included, and a software- and joystick-controlled imaging platform. The system comes with dual-path directed lighting
for exciting samples with the BioLite™ Xe MultiSpectral Light Source. The BioLite Xe offers an eight-position filter
wheel, six-position intensity selector, and a direct lighting source using fiber optic bundles to tightly control the output
spectrum for consistent, repeatable measurements. Two excitation filters are included, one each for the excitation of
GFP (Green Fluorescent Protein) and RFP (Red Fluorescent Protein).
The iBox Explorer 2 Imaging Microscope comes equipped with a slide-out warming plate that maintains the platform
stage surface at a constant 38
°C. The warming plate also contains two threaded studs to accommodate a small
animal anesthesia manifold.
The iBox Explorer
2
includes a highly sensitive CCD camera with high magnification optics, providing real-time, live
preview images.
iBox Explorer
2
Imaging Microscope