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There are some potential security issues with this, but occasionally we use
remote desktop to run scopes from other rooms.

Craig


On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 7:46 AM, George McNamara
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> Hi Simon,
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> Leave the eyepieces in the drawer and teach your users to use the live
> camera images. Would also be useful to have an identical microscope in the
> main lab that users can learn on and adapt to.
>
> You can also take a tip from Sedat lab's and Applied Precision's use of a
> "scout scope". More practically, in your BSL3 system, low magnification lens
> and/or motorized XY(Z) tile scanning.
>
> You could take this even further by having a duplicate computer monitor,
> keyboard, mouse, etc, outside the BSL3 space. Preferably with the microscope
> on the other side of a window from the non-3 station. Same ideas would apply
> to a microscope in a GMP facility (which is the idea came from).
>
> George
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> p.s. Are you really studying flour in there? ... flourescence
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> On 1/14/2011 9:32 AM, Watkins, Simon C wrote:
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>> Folks, I am about to install an advanced imaging system (sweptfield
>> confocal and widefield imaging combo) in a biosafety level 3 facility.  To
>> work in the facility one has to suit up and wear a rigid face mask, as the
>> cells/pathogens will be on the scope and may be open to the environment.
>>  This means that the eyepieces of the scope are essentially useless.  I
>> wonder if any other listers have dealt with this problem and what their
>> solution was? Obviously the widefield camera will help a lot, but it doesnt
>> allow survey of the full field of view, as we are doing mostly flourescence
>> a video camera isnt much use.... back in the day, there were some screen
>> solutions....
>> Looking for creative ideas
>> S.
>>
>> Simon C. Watkins Ph.D, FRC Path
>> Professor and Vice Chair Cell Biology and Physiology
>> Professor Immunology Director Center for Biologic Imaging
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