Re: Lense swap

GTO wrote:

Do you put/grow your specimen on top of a coverglass at 0.17mm? Usually an inverted microscope is used in such a way that the dish or slide is towards the lens. So the first glass surface after the front lens of the objective has a thickness of around 1.2mm for an inverted scope. BTW, the DLL is a 


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A colleague introduced me to these awesome petri dishes that have a #1.5 coverslip in the center, like a window. So, one can grow adherent cells normally, and then use the dish on an inverted scope with the proper coverslip thickness already in place. I forget who makes them.... but they are not too expensive.


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Andrew Resnick, Ph.D.
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Case Western Reserve University
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