Expanding the Dragonfly Series

Expanding the Dragonfly Series

Oxford Instruments Andor, a world leader in scientific imaging solutions, today announces the launch of Dragonfly 400 and new VLE (Versatile Laser Engine), further expanding the award-winning Dragonfly confocal microscopy portfolio.

The Dragonfly 200 series offers speed, sensitivity and excellent confocal imaging, making it an ideal system for a wide range of applications, including live cell imaging, development biology, neurobiology, and cancer research. The Dragonfly 200 delivers high-performance spinning disk confocal imaging of all (thick, thin, fixed and live) biological samples. High-resolution image stacks are ready for analysis in mere seconds.

The upgraded model adds new capabilities including the new VLE (Versatile laser engine), which allows seven laser lines in a single chassis and up to 10 lines in dual chassis mode, giving researchers the capability to choose more fluorophores for their experiments as well as increasing labelling options on a single experiment. Furthermore, the Dragonfly series is built with modularity in mind, allowing Dragonfly 200 systems to be upgraded to the new Dragonfly 400 model in the field.

The new Dragonfly 400 series builds on the key features of the Dragonfly 200 by adding the established HLE (High Power Laser engine) and the 3D-Super Resolution Module. With the Dragonfly 400 series and the high-power laser engine (HLE), the system becomes ideal for an even wider set of research applications. The HLE delivers enough power for super-resolution applications (SMLM) with DNA-PAINT. A single plane image through the 3D super-resolution module delivers axial information over an ~1 μm range with a corresponding axial resolution down to 30 nm. The high-power lasers of the HLE deliver an increase in productivity over the Dragonfly 200 series, allowing even higher productivity in time-consuming applications, such as spatial omics applications and large sample imaging.

For the ultimate range of imaging applications, users have the option of choosing the Dragonfly 600 series with Borealis-TIRF and Zoom Illumination optics imaging functionality to make a complete multi-modal system for widefield, Confocal, TIRF, and SMLM (DNA-PAINT & dSTORM) applications. Dragonfly 600 has achieved impressive resolutions down to 6 nm (DNA-PAINT) and allows SMLM in any imaging modality (confocal, widefield, or B-TIRF).

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