Testimonials
Ragan Robertson,
Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York
Andor's technology is fundamental to our work in this area. Regular CCD cameras would
simply not be capable of giving us the s patial resolution required for our force
spectroscopy techniques. "In fact often we don't have to stretch the camera to its
limits to get the results we want. We look for very fast frame rates of around 200
frames per second to generate our resolution of around half a nanometre.
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Breaking the Diffraction Limit Captures Single Molecule Dynamics
Professor Daniel Axelrod
Biophysics Research Division, University of Michigan
The great thing about the EMCCD technology pioneered by Andor is that it almost eliminates
this extra noise and brings the detection capabilities down to the fundamental physical
limits of what can be done.
Dr Stefan Diez
Group leader, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden,
Germany
Until Andor’s EMCCD technology was available, the best we could mange within these
parameters was around three frames per second. Using the iXon we can now work at
up to 100 frames per second and we can capture larger areas. This is very important
because some of the motor proteins move with a speed of 800 nanometres per second.
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Watching Single Motor Molecules at Work: From Cellular Function to Bionanotechnology
Dr Derek Toomre
Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, Connecticut
Currently, we are seeing a revolution in imaging, and Andor Technology is an integral
part of that revolution. The company’s iXon camera is helping us to see things that
would have remained hidden had it not been available.
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Directly observing intra-cellular dynamics with 4D microscopy and single molecule
microscopy - the challenges ahead.
Dr Jens Rietdorf
European Molecular Biology Laboratories, Heidelberg, Germany
The biological systems under investigation cannot be illuminated for imaging purposes
without causing damage to them. We therefore have to find ways of making the best
use of the light that is available. In some cases this can be as little as just
one or two photons per unit time and volume.
In these conditions, traditional scientific cameras are of no use. Andor however
has pioneered EMCCD technology which in combination with various imaging techniques
greatly improves our abilities to investigate highly dynamic biological processes.
Dr Bert Hecht
Nano-Optics group, Institute of Physics University of Basel, Switzerland
There are other imaging technologies available to us but Andor’s EMCCD technology
has clear advantages particularly in terms of its quantum efficiency, its ease of
use and its price.