Bill,

        A couple of points:

1.  I hope that all is in order with the chapter on 2-photon, by Colin
Sheppard and me, for your Handbook of Fluorescent and Luminescent probes.
I've heard nothing back so far.  I do now have some pictures to add to it
(having failed
to get any from the manufacturers I hd to take some myself ...) so how should
I send them.  Can you receive them electronically?  Are you proposing to
publish in colour?  (They are multi-channel and look good in colour but of
course I don't have funds to pay printing costs).

2.  You have posted recently about your image acquisition and processing
systems.  I am currently writing yet another book chapter, this time of
mass storage and image manipulation for confocal.  I am allowed to name
brands, but of course it is a survey, sot a "Which" report.

Can you let me know any of your systems which you think would be relevant?
I emphasize that this is specifically for confocal images and I am NOT
covering CCD acquisition software etc, (even though it may be used with
Nipkow or slit confocal scopes).  Are there any demo versions available?

                                                Guy Cox



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