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Dear all,
It would be really nice to have the whole inside story straightened up
someday!
A clear distinction should be made also between stage-scanning and
beam-scanning. In this respect which was the fisrt beam-scanner?

Concerning Sarastro, since I am now located in Sweden I contacted Kjell
Carlsson couldn't recall. Niels Alsund, then president of Sarastro, says
that the commercial company was founded in 1986 and sold its first set
up the same year here at the Karolinska Institutet. The prototype
however was running before that (probably at KTH where Kjell worked?)
but I got no dates on that!
Best Whishes to all.
Eric 

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----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin W Eliceiri <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, November 8, 2007 4:17 am
Subject: Re: First commercial single point confocal
To: [log in to unmask]

> Search the CONFOCAL archive at
> http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=confocal
> 
> In 2003 Brad Amos and John White wrote a review for the Journal of 
> Biology of the Cell entitled "How the Confocal Laser Scanning 
> Microscope. entered Biological Research" that covers the history of 
> the MRC500 development and timeline of other confocal developments. 
> This is freely available at:
> 
> www.biolcell.org/boc/095/0335/boc0950335.pdf
> 
> In this review they state that one of the first public showings of 
> their prototype was at
> the Symposium of the International Society for Analytical Cytology 
> in Cambridge, UK, in 1987. 
> 
> 
> Kevin W. Eliceiri
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Patrick Van Oostveldt <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wednesday, November 7, 2007 11:50 am
> Subject: Re: First commercial single point confocal
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 
> > Search the CONFOCAL archive at
> > http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=confocal
> > 
> > Dear,
> > 
> > As far as my memory is correct we recieved the first commercial 
> MRC500 
> >  
> > confocal in Europe. Feb 1988. At that time some prototypes of 
> Leica  
> > were also displayed in EMBL. The EMBL system even had no 
> possibility  
> > 
> > to use conventional object observation and hence you needed a 
> rather  
> > 
> > blind imaging. Quite difficult if you have to look and search 
> your  
> > object with alone confocal illumination and slowscanning.
> > Andrew Dixon, was than the most important person at BIORAD, 
> probably  
> > 
> > he has some  exact dates.
> > 
> > As they told me the MRC500 was presented to the public in dec 
> 1987 at  
> > 
> > the american cell biology meeting.
> > Am I correct?
> > 
> > Patrick
> > 
> > Quoting "Wiegraebe, Winfried" <[log in to unmask]>:
> > 
> > > Search the CONFOCAL archive at
> > > http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=confocal
> > >
> > > How do the Zeiss laser scanning and confocal microscopes fit 
> into this
> > > history?
> > > According to their web-page they had 1982 the first commercial 
> laser> > scanning microscope (not confocal), the LSM 44 and 1988 a 
> confocal> > system (the LSM 10).
> > > Winfried
> > >
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