View source for Differential Polarization Laser Scanning Microscopy

{{Facility
|Coordinates=46° 14' 42.8" N 20° 9' 50.8" E
|Facility_Name=Differential Polarization Laser Scanning Microscopy
|Facility_desc=DP-LSM
|Organization=Biological Research Centre of HAS
|Website=http://www.dplsm.eu/
|Street=Temesvári krt. 62.
|ZIP=H-6726
|City=Szeged
|Facility_Head=GARAB,_Győző_Prof._Dr.
|Pricelist=DP-LSM Pricelist
}}
The DP-LSM is a ’conventional’ laser scanning confocal microscope '''(LSM)''' equipped with laboratory-built high-frequency differential-polarization '''(DP)''' attachments. This set-up allows the rapid and precise pixel-by-pixel determination of physical parameters which are characteristic of the anisotropic molecular architecture of different samples, i.e. parameters derived from DP measurements and from the interaction of the sample with polarized light in general. With the aid of DP-LSM, in addition to the conventional LSM imagings, 2D or 3D maps can be obtained on the birefringence (LB), linear and circular dichroism (LD&CD) of the sample, also, confocally, on fluorescence-detected dichroisms (FDLD&FDCD), as well as the linear and circular polarization contents of the emission (r&CPL), as well as on the degree of polarization of fluorescence emission.

'''Area of science:'''<br />
'''Engineering sciences :''' Materials science and technology <br />
'''Chemical sciences :''' Other chemical sciences <br />
'''Experimental medicine :''' Medical biology, Medical microbiology<br /> 
'''Biotechnology :''' Environmental biotechnology, Animal biotechnology, Plant biotechnology, Medical biotechnology, Agricultural biotechnology <br />
'''Biology :''' Microbiology, Evolutionary biology, Molecular biology, Structural biology, <br />
'''Other life sciences:'''  Cell biology<br />