MT-1000

SUTTER INSTRUMENTS

Sutter Instrument Company is pleased to introduce an innovative new design for use in fixed-stage, moving optical pathway microscopy. The modular design of the MT-1000 features free-standing columns that provide rock solid mounting for the tissue recording chamber and multiple micromanipulators, such as the MP-285 Motorized Micromanipulator. The columns are positioned around a movable table that provides X-Y translation of the optical pathway in order to view multiple locations within the chamber at high power.

The column-mounted tissue recording chamber is relatively compact and serves as an alternative to bulky stages. The modular columns allow easy access to the microscope and provide a very flexible design platform for customizing your rig.  

At the core of the system is the X-Y translation table. It is designed to allow movement of a microscope's optics with respect to the fixed stage.

Such an arrangement is currently in use by electrophysiologists recording from tissue slice preparations. The translator allows visualization and/or imaging of multiple tissue locations while maintaining multiple stable recordings from the preparation. Such a system is also useful for experiments on cells in culture, where one wishes to monitor several cells not in the same field of view, e.g. recording from pre and post synaptic neurons in culture and/or imaging one cell while recording from or stimulating another.  

Translation tables are available for the Olympus BX-50, Nikon E600FN, Zeiss AxioskopFS and the Leica DMLFSA. A generic rectangular table (295mm x 340mm) which can accommodate most standard, upright microscopes as well as a number of inverted microscopes is also available.

The recording chamber and micromanipulators are mounted on independent columns firmly affixed to the translator baseplate. The manipulator columns are identical to the MT-75 gantry style stands. The recording chamber fits into a dovetail slide on a similar column. While the chamber column shown opposite conforms to a Warner Instruments Series 20 design, other chambers can be accommodated. A dovetail slide with a generic opening is available for users who wish to develop custom chambers.

COMPONENTS X-Y Translators

MT-500/Y50 for Olympus BX50WI
MT-500/Y51 for Olympus BX51
MT-500/N60 for Nikon E600FN
MT-500/L30 for Leica DMLFSA
MT-500/Z20 for Zeiss Axioskop FS
MT-500/Z25 for Zeiss Axioskop 2 FS

COMLETE SYSTEMS includes:
           X-Y translator, chamber column, two micromanipulator columns

MT-1000/Y50* for the Olympus BX50WI
MT-1000/N60* for the Nikon E600FN
MT-1000/Z20* for the Zeiss Axioskop FS
MT-1000/L30* for the Leica DMLFSA
*Please specify chamber type when ordering.

Chamber Column

MT-150/W20 for Warner Instr. Series 20 recording chamber
MT-150/CUST for non-standard recording chamber

Manipulator Columns

MT-75 Tall gantry micromanipulator stand
MT-75S Short gantry micromanipulator stand

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