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Reducing the image size or using bidirectional scanning will reduce the time as will reducing the averaging as long as you don't mind trading off image quality for time.

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If LAS AF has "activate resonant scanner" checkbox on startup, do it.
8000 lines/sec. If you do not have it, ask your salesperson for the
upgrade price - ask for pricing on a couple of HyD's as well (see
Wolfgang's recent post).

While waiting for the upgrade(s), set the scan speed to 1400 Hz (max
speed on the standard scanner).


On 10/17/2011 10:09 PM, jax9466 wrote:
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> Dear All,
> I heard about this list from a lecture on confocal imaging. We have a leica
> Sp5 at the lab, and we've been doing some work on calcium imaging and
> time-lapse. But for our new project, we want to pick up the scanning speed
> of our confocal microscope, 15s is a bit long for us. Is there anyway to
> achieve this goal? Can we do this by simply changing something in settings
> or do we have to contact the maker and purchase an add-on?
>
> Thanks,
> Jun Li
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University of Miami



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