Description
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is conducting a market survey to determine the availability and technical capability of qualified small businesses to provide a high-resolution laser scanning confocal microscope system. The system must be capable of live-cell and fixed-tissue fluorescence imaging with integrated super-resolution imaging, spectral detection, environmental control, automated image acquisition, and quantitative image analysis. The required system must meet specific minimum requirements, including microscope platform, confocal imaging system, excitation sources, super-resolution imaging, objectives, motorized stage, high-speed Z focusing, environmental control, software, computer workstation, and physical requirements. The system will support research focused on the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying hearing and balance using mouse and zebrafish model systems.
Some key features of the required system include:
• Live-cell and fixed-tissue fluorescence imaging
• Integrated super-resolution imaging
• Spectral detection
• Environmental control
• Automated image acquisition
• Quantitative image analysis
• High-resolution imaging of mouse inner ear tissues
• Live imaging of zebrafish lateral line and inner ear
• Long-term time-lapse microscopy
• Super-resolution fluorescence microscopy
• Spectral imaging
• Quantitative two-dimensional and three-dimensional image analysis
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Tina Robinson