Below is a list of some of the most common techniques performed in the Dundee Imaging Facility. For further information please browse the resource pages or contact us for further information
Light Microscopy
- Confocal microscopy
- Super resolution microscopy
- Widefield Deconvolution microscopy
- Laser micro-dissection
- TIRF
- Label free (SHG and THG) Imaging
- Live cell imaging
- Multi-photon microscopy
- PALM
- FCS/FCCS
- FRET
- Structured Illumination Microscopy
- Frequency and Time domain FLIM
- FRAP
- Spinning Disk Microscopy
Electron Microscopy and Non-Optical Imaging
- Transmission Electron Microscopy
- Scanning Electron Microscopy
- Cryo-SEM
- Cryo TEM
- Atomic Force Microscopy
Data Analysis
- Image Restoration
- Image Stitching & Registration
- Image Segmentation
- 3D Image Analysis & Visualisation
- Cell Tracking
- Single Particle Tracking & Optical Flow
- Colocalization
- Quantitative Image Analysis & Statistics
- Automation and High Throughput
Sample Preparation
- Resin embedding
- Ultrathin sectioning
- Serial sectioning
- Tokuyasu embedding
- Cryosectioning
- Immunolabelling
- Plunge Freezing
- High Pressure Freezing
- Freeze substitution
- Critical Point Drying
- Freeze fracture
- Metal coating
- Negative stain
- Photoconversion
- Immunofluorescence
- Cryostat sectioning
- Vibrating microtome
- H&E staining
- Enzyme histochemistry
- Live Cell sample preparation