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Dear Sagar,
"Handbook of Biological Confocal Microscopy by James Pawley" and
microscopyu.com can serve your purpose.

Manish Kumar
Application Support Specialist
New Delhi

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Martin Seem <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> Based on the limited number of books that I have experience with I think my
> list would look something like this:
>
> 1. Optical Imaging Techniques in Cell Biology by Guy Cox (Beginner ->
> Intermediate).
> 2. Fundamentals of Light Microscopy and Electronic Imaging by Douglas B.
> Murphy (Intermediate).
> 3. Handbook of Biological Confocal Microscopy (James Pawley (Ed))
> (Intermediate -> Advanced).
>
> However, although these books do give a detailed explanation of how
> confocal microscopes are constructed and how their components work they are
> not written as protocols describing how to operate these instruments. For
> information about how to handle a specific instrument you will need to
> depend on the user manual or the help files that comes with the system
> software.
>
> There are also several excellent articles available at the following
> websites:
> 1, http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/
> 2. http://www.microscopyu.com/
> 3. http://olympusmicro.com/
> 4. http://zeiss-campus.magnet.fsu.edu/
>
> Martin
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>
>
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> On 31/05/2011 05:16, Sagar Mahalle wrote:
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>> Hi everybody,
>> we are going to set-up a new confocal microscope in our institute. we
>> would like
>> to purchase a basic beginner reference books for handling of confocal
>> microscope.
>> I will be glad, if i get list of 3 best books.
>> I look forward to hearing from you.
>> Thanks and best regards,
>>
>> Sagar Mahalle.
>> Regional centre for Biotechnology,
>> India.
>>
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