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Lecture 1

The Principles of Microscopy
BMS 524 - “Introduction to Confocal Microscopy and Image Analysis”
Purdue University Department of Basic Medical Sciences,
School of Veterinary Medicine

J.Paul Robinson, Ph.D.
Professor of Immunopharmacology
Director, Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories
These slides are intended for use in a lecture series. Copies of the graphics are distributed and
students encouraged to take their notes on these graphics. The intent is to have the student
NOT try to reproduce the figures, but to LISTEN and UNDERSTAND the material. All
material copyright J.Paul Robinson unless stated. Textbook for this lecture series in Jim
Pawley’s “Handbook of Confocal Microscopy” Plenum Press which has been used extensively
for material and ideas to support the class.
Slide 1 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

UPDATED October 27, 1998

Evaluation
• End of term quiz - 100% grade

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 2 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to the Course









Microscopy
Fluorescence
Basic Optics
Confocal Microscopes
Basic Image Analysis
3D image analysis
Live Cell Studies
Advanced Applications

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 3 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to Lecture 1






Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Early Microscope
Modern Microscopes
Magnification
Nature of Light
Optical Designs

Slide 4 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscopes





Upright
Inverted
Köhler Illumination
Fluorescence Illumination

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 5 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Earliest Microscopes
• 1590 - Hans & Zacharias Janssen of Middleburg, Holland
manufactured the first compound microscope
• 1673 Antioni Van Leeuwenhoek created a “simple” microscope that
could magnify to about 275x, and published drawings of
microorganisms in 1683

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 6 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Early Microscopes (Hooke)

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 7 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Secondary Microscopes
• In 1827 Giovanni Battista Amici, built high quality microscopes and
introduced the first matched achromatic microscope in 1827. He
recognized the importance of coveralls thickness and developed the
concept of “water immersion”
• Carl Zeiss and Ernst Abbe developed oil immersion systems by
developing oils that matched the refractive index of glass. Dr Otto
Schott formulated glass lenses that color-corrected objectives and
produced the first “apochromatic” objectives in 1886.

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 8 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Modern Microscopes
• Early 20th Century Professor Köhler
developed the method of illumination still
called “Köhler Illumination”
• Köhler recognized that using shorter
wavelength light (UV) could improve
resolution

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 9 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler
• Köhler illumination creates an evenly
illuminated field of view while illuminating
the specimen with a very wide cone of light
• Two conjugate image planes are formed
– one contains an image of the specimen and the
other the filament from the light

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 10 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler Illumination
condenser

Field iris

Specimen

eyepiece
Field stop
retina

Conjugate planes for image-forming rays

Field iris

Specimen

Field stop

Conjugate planes for illuminating rays

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 11 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Principles
• Rule of thumb is is not to exceed 1,000
times the NA of the objective
• Modern microscopes magnify both in the
objective and the ocular and thus are called
“compound microscopes”

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 12 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification
• An object can be focussed generally no
closer than 250 mm from the eye
(depending upon how old you are!)
• this is considered to be the normal viewing
distance for 1x magnification
• Young people may be able to focus as close
as 125 mm so they can magnify as much as
2x because the image covers a larger part of
the retina
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 13 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification

1000mm

35 mm slide
24x36 mm
1000 mm
M = 36 mm = 28

The projected image is 28 times larger than we would
see it at 250 mm from our eyes.
If we used a 10x magnifier we would have a magnification
of 280x, but we would reduce the field of view by the same
factor of 10x.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 14 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Basic Microscopy
• Bright field illumination does not reveal
differences in brightness between structural
details - i.e. no contrast
• Structural details emerge via phase
differences and by staining of components
• The edge effects (diffraction, refraction,
reflection) produce contrast and detail
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 15 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Definitions
• Absorption
– When light passes through an object the intensity is reduced depending
upon the color absorbed. Thus the selective absorption of white light
produces colored light.

• Refraction
– Direction change of a ray of light passing from one transparent medium to
another with different optical density. A ray from less to more dense
medium is bent perpendicular to the surface, with greater deviation for
shorter wavelengths

• Diffraction
– Light rays bend around edges - new wavefronts are generated at sharp
edges - the smaller the aperture the lower the definition

• Dispersion
– Separation of light into its constituent wavelengths when entering a
transparent medium - the change of refractive index with wavelength,
such as the spectrum produced by a prism or a rainbow

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 16 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Control

Absorption

No blue/green light
red filter
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 17 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Absorption Chart
Color in white light

Color of light absorbed

red

blue

green

blue
green

red
red

green

yellow

blue

blue

magenta

green

cyan
black

red
red

green

gray

pink

green

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

blue
blue
Slide 18 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction
Short wavelengths are “bent”
more than long wavelengths

dispersion

Light is “bent” and the resultant colors separate (dispersion).
Red is least refracted, violet most refracted.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 19 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction

He sees the
fish here….

But it is really here!!
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 20 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Upright Scope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 21 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Inverted Microscope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 22 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscope Basics
• Originally conformed to the German DIN
standard
• Standard required the following
– real image formed at a tube length of 160mm
– the parfocal distance set to 45 mm
– object to image distance set at 195 mm

• Currently we use the ISO standard
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 23 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

The Conventional Microscope

Mechanical
tube length
= 160 mm

Object to
Image
Distance
= 195 mm

Focal length
of objective
= 45 mm
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 24 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Conventional Finite Optics
with Telan system
Ocular
Intermediate Image
195 mm

160 mm

Telan Optics
Other optics
Objective
45 mm

Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 25 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Infinity Optics
Ocular
Primary Image Plane

Tube Lens
Infinite
Image
Distance

Other optics
Other optics
Objective

The main advantage of infinity
corrected lens systems is the
relative insensitivity to
additional optics within the
tube length. Secondly one can
focus by moving the objective
and not the specimen (stage)
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 26 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Summary Lecture 1
• Upright and inverted microscopes
• Köhler illumination
• Refraction, Absorption, dispersion,
diffraction
• Magnification
• Optical Designs - 160 mm and Infinity
optics
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 27 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt


Slide 2

Lecture 1

The Principles of Microscopy
BMS 524 - “Introduction to Confocal Microscopy and Image Analysis”
Purdue University Department of Basic Medical Sciences,
School of Veterinary Medicine

J.Paul Robinson, Ph.D.
Professor of Immunopharmacology
Director, Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories
These slides are intended for use in a lecture series. Copies of the graphics are distributed and
students encouraged to take their notes on these graphics. The intent is to have the student
NOT try to reproduce the figures, but to LISTEN and UNDERSTAND the material. All
material copyright J.Paul Robinson unless stated. Textbook for this lecture series in Jim
Pawley’s “Handbook of Confocal Microscopy” Plenum Press which has been used extensively
for material and ideas to support the class.
Slide 1 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

UPDATED October 27, 1998

Evaluation
• End of term quiz - 100% grade

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 2 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to the Course









Microscopy
Fluorescence
Basic Optics
Confocal Microscopes
Basic Image Analysis
3D image analysis
Live Cell Studies
Advanced Applications

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 3 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to Lecture 1






Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Early Microscope
Modern Microscopes
Magnification
Nature of Light
Optical Designs

Slide 4 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscopes





Upright
Inverted
Köhler Illumination
Fluorescence Illumination

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 5 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Earliest Microscopes
• 1590 - Hans & Zacharias Janssen of Middleburg, Holland
manufactured the first compound microscope
• 1673 Antioni Van Leeuwenhoek created a “simple” microscope that
could magnify to about 275x, and published drawings of
microorganisms in 1683

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 6 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Early Microscopes (Hooke)

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 7 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Secondary Microscopes
• In 1827 Giovanni Battista Amici, built high quality microscopes and
introduced the first matched achromatic microscope in 1827. He
recognized the importance of coveralls thickness and developed the
concept of “water immersion”
• Carl Zeiss and Ernst Abbe developed oil immersion systems by
developing oils that matched the refractive index of glass. Dr Otto
Schott formulated glass lenses that color-corrected objectives and
produced the first “apochromatic” objectives in 1886.

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 8 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Modern Microscopes
• Early 20th Century Professor Köhler
developed the method of illumination still
called “Köhler Illumination”
• Köhler recognized that using shorter
wavelength light (UV) could improve
resolution

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 9 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler
• Köhler illumination creates an evenly
illuminated field of view while illuminating
the specimen with a very wide cone of light
• Two conjugate image planes are formed
– one contains an image of the specimen and the
other the filament from the light

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 10 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler Illumination
condenser

Field iris

Specimen

eyepiece
Field stop
retina

Conjugate planes for image-forming rays

Field iris

Specimen

Field stop

Conjugate planes for illuminating rays

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 11 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Principles
• Rule of thumb is is not to exceed 1,000
times the NA of the objective
• Modern microscopes magnify both in the
objective and the ocular and thus are called
“compound microscopes”

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 12 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification
• An object can be focussed generally no
closer than 250 mm from the eye
(depending upon how old you are!)
• this is considered to be the normal viewing
distance for 1x magnification
• Young people may be able to focus as close
as 125 mm so they can magnify as much as
2x because the image covers a larger part of
the retina
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 13 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification

1000mm

35 mm slide
24x36 mm
1000 mm
M = 36 mm = 28

The projected image is 28 times larger than we would
see it at 250 mm from our eyes.
If we used a 10x magnifier we would have a magnification
of 280x, but we would reduce the field of view by the same
factor of 10x.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 14 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Basic Microscopy
• Bright field illumination does not reveal
differences in brightness between structural
details - i.e. no contrast
• Structural details emerge via phase
differences and by staining of components
• The edge effects (diffraction, refraction,
reflection) produce contrast and detail
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 15 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Definitions
• Absorption
– When light passes through an object the intensity is reduced depending
upon the color absorbed. Thus the selective absorption of white light
produces colored light.

• Refraction
– Direction change of a ray of light passing from one transparent medium to
another with different optical density. A ray from less to more dense
medium is bent perpendicular to the surface, with greater deviation for
shorter wavelengths

• Diffraction
– Light rays bend around edges - new wavefronts are generated at sharp
edges - the smaller the aperture the lower the definition

• Dispersion
– Separation of light into its constituent wavelengths when entering a
transparent medium - the change of refractive index with wavelength,
such as the spectrum produced by a prism or a rainbow

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 16 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Control

Absorption

No blue/green light
red filter
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 17 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Absorption Chart
Color in white light

Color of light absorbed

red

blue

green

blue
green

red
red

green

yellow

blue

blue

magenta

green

cyan
black

red
red

green

gray

pink

green

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

blue
blue
Slide 18 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction
Short wavelengths are “bent”
more than long wavelengths

dispersion

Light is “bent” and the resultant colors separate (dispersion).
Red is least refracted, violet most refracted.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 19 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction

He sees the
fish here….

But it is really here!!
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 20 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Upright Scope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 21 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Inverted Microscope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 22 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscope Basics
• Originally conformed to the German DIN
standard
• Standard required the following
– real image formed at a tube length of 160mm
– the parfocal distance set to 45 mm
– object to image distance set at 195 mm

• Currently we use the ISO standard
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 23 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

The Conventional Microscope

Mechanical
tube length
= 160 mm

Object to
Image
Distance
= 195 mm

Focal length
of objective
= 45 mm
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 24 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Conventional Finite Optics
with Telan system
Ocular
Intermediate Image
195 mm

160 mm

Telan Optics
Other optics
Objective
45 mm

Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 25 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Infinity Optics
Ocular
Primary Image Plane

Tube Lens
Infinite
Image
Distance

Other optics
Other optics
Objective

The main advantage of infinity
corrected lens systems is the
relative insensitivity to
additional optics within the
tube length. Secondly one can
focus by moving the objective
and not the specimen (stage)
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 26 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Summary Lecture 1
• Upright and inverted microscopes
• Köhler illumination
• Refraction, Absorption, dispersion,
diffraction
• Magnification
• Optical Designs - 160 mm and Infinity
optics
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 27 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt


Slide 3

Lecture 1

The Principles of Microscopy
BMS 524 - “Introduction to Confocal Microscopy and Image Analysis”
Purdue University Department of Basic Medical Sciences,
School of Veterinary Medicine

J.Paul Robinson, Ph.D.
Professor of Immunopharmacology
Director, Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories
These slides are intended for use in a lecture series. Copies of the graphics are distributed and
students encouraged to take their notes on these graphics. The intent is to have the student
NOT try to reproduce the figures, but to LISTEN and UNDERSTAND the material. All
material copyright J.Paul Robinson unless stated. Textbook for this lecture series in Jim
Pawley’s “Handbook of Confocal Microscopy” Plenum Press which has been used extensively
for material and ideas to support the class.
Slide 1 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

UPDATED October 27, 1998

Evaluation
• End of term quiz - 100% grade

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 2 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to the Course









Microscopy
Fluorescence
Basic Optics
Confocal Microscopes
Basic Image Analysis
3D image analysis
Live Cell Studies
Advanced Applications

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 3 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to Lecture 1






Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Early Microscope
Modern Microscopes
Magnification
Nature of Light
Optical Designs

Slide 4 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscopes





Upright
Inverted
Köhler Illumination
Fluorescence Illumination

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 5 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Earliest Microscopes
• 1590 - Hans & Zacharias Janssen of Middleburg, Holland
manufactured the first compound microscope
• 1673 Antioni Van Leeuwenhoek created a “simple” microscope that
could magnify to about 275x, and published drawings of
microorganisms in 1683

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 6 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Early Microscopes (Hooke)

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 7 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Secondary Microscopes
• In 1827 Giovanni Battista Amici, built high quality microscopes and
introduced the first matched achromatic microscope in 1827. He
recognized the importance of coveralls thickness and developed the
concept of “water immersion”
• Carl Zeiss and Ernst Abbe developed oil immersion systems by
developing oils that matched the refractive index of glass. Dr Otto
Schott formulated glass lenses that color-corrected objectives and
produced the first “apochromatic” objectives in 1886.

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 8 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Modern Microscopes
• Early 20th Century Professor Köhler
developed the method of illumination still
called “Köhler Illumination”
• Köhler recognized that using shorter
wavelength light (UV) could improve
resolution

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 9 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler
• Köhler illumination creates an evenly
illuminated field of view while illuminating
the specimen with a very wide cone of light
• Two conjugate image planes are formed
– one contains an image of the specimen and the
other the filament from the light

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 10 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler Illumination
condenser

Field iris

Specimen

eyepiece
Field stop
retina

Conjugate planes for image-forming rays

Field iris

Specimen

Field stop

Conjugate planes for illuminating rays

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 11 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Principles
• Rule of thumb is is not to exceed 1,000
times the NA of the objective
• Modern microscopes magnify both in the
objective and the ocular and thus are called
“compound microscopes”

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 12 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification
• An object can be focussed generally no
closer than 250 mm from the eye
(depending upon how old you are!)
• this is considered to be the normal viewing
distance for 1x magnification
• Young people may be able to focus as close
as 125 mm so they can magnify as much as
2x because the image covers a larger part of
the retina
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 13 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification

1000mm

35 mm slide
24x36 mm
1000 mm
M = 36 mm = 28

The projected image is 28 times larger than we would
see it at 250 mm from our eyes.
If we used a 10x magnifier we would have a magnification
of 280x, but we would reduce the field of view by the same
factor of 10x.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 14 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Basic Microscopy
• Bright field illumination does not reveal
differences in brightness between structural
details - i.e. no contrast
• Structural details emerge via phase
differences and by staining of components
• The edge effects (diffraction, refraction,
reflection) produce contrast and detail
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 15 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Definitions
• Absorption
– When light passes through an object the intensity is reduced depending
upon the color absorbed. Thus the selective absorption of white light
produces colored light.

• Refraction
– Direction change of a ray of light passing from one transparent medium to
another with different optical density. A ray from less to more dense
medium is bent perpendicular to the surface, with greater deviation for
shorter wavelengths

• Diffraction
– Light rays bend around edges - new wavefronts are generated at sharp
edges - the smaller the aperture the lower the definition

• Dispersion
– Separation of light into its constituent wavelengths when entering a
transparent medium - the change of refractive index with wavelength,
such as the spectrum produced by a prism or a rainbow

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 16 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Control

Absorption

No blue/green light
red filter
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 17 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Absorption Chart
Color in white light

Color of light absorbed

red

blue

green

blue
green

red
red

green

yellow

blue

blue

magenta

green

cyan
black

red
red

green

gray

pink

green

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

blue
blue
Slide 18 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction
Short wavelengths are “bent”
more than long wavelengths

dispersion

Light is “bent” and the resultant colors separate (dispersion).
Red is least refracted, violet most refracted.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 19 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction

He sees the
fish here….

But it is really here!!
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 20 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Upright Scope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 21 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Inverted Microscope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 22 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscope Basics
• Originally conformed to the German DIN
standard
• Standard required the following
– real image formed at a tube length of 160mm
– the parfocal distance set to 45 mm
– object to image distance set at 195 mm

• Currently we use the ISO standard
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 23 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

The Conventional Microscope

Mechanical
tube length
= 160 mm

Object to
Image
Distance
= 195 mm

Focal length
of objective
= 45 mm
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 24 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Conventional Finite Optics
with Telan system
Ocular
Intermediate Image
195 mm

160 mm

Telan Optics
Other optics
Objective
45 mm

Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 25 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Infinity Optics
Ocular
Primary Image Plane

Tube Lens
Infinite
Image
Distance

Other optics
Other optics
Objective

The main advantage of infinity
corrected lens systems is the
relative insensitivity to
additional optics within the
tube length. Secondly one can
focus by moving the objective
and not the specimen (stage)
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 26 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Summary Lecture 1
• Upright and inverted microscopes
• Köhler illumination
• Refraction, Absorption, dispersion,
diffraction
• Magnification
• Optical Designs - 160 mm and Infinity
optics
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 27 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt


Slide 4

Lecture 1

The Principles of Microscopy
BMS 524 - “Introduction to Confocal Microscopy and Image Analysis”
Purdue University Department of Basic Medical Sciences,
School of Veterinary Medicine

J.Paul Robinson, Ph.D.
Professor of Immunopharmacology
Director, Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories
These slides are intended for use in a lecture series. Copies of the graphics are distributed and
students encouraged to take their notes on these graphics. The intent is to have the student
NOT try to reproduce the figures, but to LISTEN and UNDERSTAND the material. All
material copyright J.Paul Robinson unless stated. Textbook for this lecture series in Jim
Pawley’s “Handbook of Confocal Microscopy” Plenum Press which has been used extensively
for material and ideas to support the class.
Slide 1 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

UPDATED October 27, 1998

Evaluation
• End of term quiz - 100% grade

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 2 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to the Course









Microscopy
Fluorescence
Basic Optics
Confocal Microscopes
Basic Image Analysis
3D image analysis
Live Cell Studies
Advanced Applications

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 3 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to Lecture 1






Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Early Microscope
Modern Microscopes
Magnification
Nature of Light
Optical Designs

Slide 4 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscopes





Upright
Inverted
Köhler Illumination
Fluorescence Illumination

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 5 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Earliest Microscopes
• 1590 - Hans & Zacharias Janssen of Middleburg, Holland
manufactured the first compound microscope
• 1673 Antioni Van Leeuwenhoek created a “simple” microscope that
could magnify to about 275x, and published drawings of
microorganisms in 1683

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 6 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Early Microscopes (Hooke)

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 7 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Secondary Microscopes
• In 1827 Giovanni Battista Amici, built high quality microscopes and
introduced the first matched achromatic microscope in 1827. He
recognized the importance of coveralls thickness and developed the
concept of “water immersion”
• Carl Zeiss and Ernst Abbe developed oil immersion systems by
developing oils that matched the refractive index of glass. Dr Otto
Schott formulated glass lenses that color-corrected objectives and
produced the first “apochromatic” objectives in 1886.

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 8 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Modern Microscopes
• Early 20th Century Professor Köhler
developed the method of illumination still
called “Köhler Illumination”
• Köhler recognized that using shorter
wavelength light (UV) could improve
resolution

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 9 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler
• Köhler illumination creates an evenly
illuminated field of view while illuminating
the specimen with a very wide cone of light
• Two conjugate image planes are formed
– one contains an image of the specimen and the
other the filament from the light

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 10 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler Illumination
condenser

Field iris

Specimen

eyepiece
Field stop
retina

Conjugate planes for image-forming rays

Field iris

Specimen

Field stop

Conjugate planes for illuminating rays

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 11 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Principles
• Rule of thumb is is not to exceed 1,000
times the NA of the objective
• Modern microscopes magnify both in the
objective and the ocular and thus are called
“compound microscopes”

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 12 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification
• An object can be focussed generally no
closer than 250 mm from the eye
(depending upon how old you are!)
• this is considered to be the normal viewing
distance for 1x magnification
• Young people may be able to focus as close
as 125 mm so they can magnify as much as
2x because the image covers a larger part of
the retina
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 13 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification

1000mm

35 mm slide
24x36 mm
1000 mm
M = 36 mm = 28

The projected image is 28 times larger than we would
see it at 250 mm from our eyes.
If we used a 10x magnifier we would have a magnification
of 280x, but we would reduce the field of view by the same
factor of 10x.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 14 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Basic Microscopy
• Bright field illumination does not reveal
differences in brightness between structural
details - i.e. no contrast
• Structural details emerge via phase
differences and by staining of components
• The edge effects (diffraction, refraction,
reflection) produce contrast and detail
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

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Some Definitions
• Absorption
– When light passes through an object the intensity is reduced depending
upon the color absorbed. Thus the selective absorption of white light
produces colored light.

• Refraction
– Direction change of a ray of light passing from one transparent medium to
another with different optical density. A ray from less to more dense
medium is bent perpendicular to the surface, with greater deviation for
shorter wavelengths

• Diffraction
– Light rays bend around edges - new wavefronts are generated at sharp
edges - the smaller the aperture the lower the definition

• Dispersion
– Separation of light into its constituent wavelengths when entering a
transparent medium - the change of refractive index with wavelength,
such as the spectrum produced by a prism or a rainbow

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

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Control

Absorption

No blue/green light
red filter
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 17 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Absorption Chart
Color in white light

Color of light absorbed

red

blue

green

blue
green

red
red

green

yellow

blue

blue

magenta

green

cyan
black

red
red

green

gray

pink

green

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

blue
blue
Slide 18 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction
Short wavelengths are “bent”
more than long wavelengths

dispersion

Light is “bent” and the resultant colors separate (dispersion).
Red is least refracted, violet most refracted.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 19 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction

He sees the
fish here….

But it is really here!!
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 20 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Upright Scope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 21 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Inverted Microscope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 22 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscope Basics
• Originally conformed to the German DIN
standard
• Standard required the following
– real image formed at a tube length of 160mm
– the parfocal distance set to 45 mm
– object to image distance set at 195 mm

• Currently we use the ISO standard
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 23 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

The Conventional Microscope

Mechanical
tube length
= 160 mm

Object to
Image
Distance
= 195 mm

Focal length
of objective
= 45 mm
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

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Conventional Finite Optics
with Telan system
Ocular
Intermediate Image
195 mm

160 mm

Telan Optics
Other optics
Objective
45 mm

Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

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Infinity Optics
Ocular
Primary Image Plane

Tube Lens
Infinite
Image
Distance

Other optics
Other optics
Objective

The main advantage of infinity
corrected lens systems is the
relative insensitivity to
additional optics within the
tube length. Secondly one can
focus by moving the objective
and not the specimen (stage)
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 26 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Summary Lecture 1
• Upright and inverted microscopes
• Köhler illumination
• Refraction, Absorption, dispersion,
diffraction
• Magnification
• Optical Designs - 160 mm and Infinity
optics
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 27 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt


Slide 5

Lecture 1

The Principles of Microscopy
BMS 524 - “Introduction to Confocal Microscopy and Image Analysis”
Purdue University Department of Basic Medical Sciences,
School of Veterinary Medicine

J.Paul Robinson, Ph.D.
Professor of Immunopharmacology
Director, Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories
These slides are intended for use in a lecture series. Copies of the graphics are distributed and
students encouraged to take their notes on these graphics. The intent is to have the student
NOT try to reproduce the figures, but to LISTEN and UNDERSTAND the material. All
material copyright J.Paul Robinson unless stated. Textbook for this lecture series in Jim
Pawley’s “Handbook of Confocal Microscopy” Plenum Press which has been used extensively
for material and ideas to support the class.
Slide 1 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

UPDATED October 27, 1998

Evaluation
• End of term quiz - 100% grade

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 2 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to the Course









Microscopy
Fluorescence
Basic Optics
Confocal Microscopes
Basic Image Analysis
3D image analysis
Live Cell Studies
Advanced Applications

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 3 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to Lecture 1






Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Early Microscope
Modern Microscopes
Magnification
Nature of Light
Optical Designs

Slide 4 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscopes





Upright
Inverted
Köhler Illumination
Fluorescence Illumination

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 5 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Earliest Microscopes
• 1590 - Hans & Zacharias Janssen of Middleburg, Holland
manufactured the first compound microscope
• 1673 Antioni Van Leeuwenhoek created a “simple” microscope that
could magnify to about 275x, and published drawings of
microorganisms in 1683

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 6 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Early Microscopes (Hooke)

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 7 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Secondary Microscopes
• In 1827 Giovanni Battista Amici, built high quality microscopes and
introduced the first matched achromatic microscope in 1827. He
recognized the importance of coveralls thickness and developed the
concept of “water immersion”
• Carl Zeiss and Ernst Abbe developed oil immersion systems by
developing oils that matched the refractive index of glass. Dr Otto
Schott formulated glass lenses that color-corrected objectives and
produced the first “apochromatic” objectives in 1886.

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 8 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Modern Microscopes
• Early 20th Century Professor Köhler
developed the method of illumination still
called “Köhler Illumination”
• Köhler recognized that using shorter
wavelength light (UV) could improve
resolution

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 9 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler
• Köhler illumination creates an evenly
illuminated field of view while illuminating
the specimen with a very wide cone of light
• Two conjugate image planes are formed
– one contains an image of the specimen and the
other the filament from the light

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 10 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler Illumination
condenser

Field iris

Specimen

eyepiece
Field stop
retina

Conjugate planes for image-forming rays

Field iris

Specimen

Field stop

Conjugate planes for illuminating rays

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 11 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Principles
• Rule of thumb is is not to exceed 1,000
times the NA of the objective
• Modern microscopes magnify both in the
objective and the ocular and thus are called
“compound microscopes”

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 12 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification
• An object can be focussed generally no
closer than 250 mm from the eye
(depending upon how old you are!)
• this is considered to be the normal viewing
distance for 1x magnification
• Young people may be able to focus as close
as 125 mm so they can magnify as much as
2x because the image covers a larger part of
the retina
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 13 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification

1000mm

35 mm slide
24x36 mm
1000 mm
M = 36 mm = 28

The projected image is 28 times larger than we would
see it at 250 mm from our eyes.
If we used a 10x magnifier we would have a magnification
of 280x, but we would reduce the field of view by the same
factor of 10x.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 14 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Basic Microscopy
• Bright field illumination does not reveal
differences in brightness between structural
details - i.e. no contrast
• Structural details emerge via phase
differences and by staining of components
• The edge effects (diffraction, refraction,
reflection) produce contrast and detail
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 15 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Definitions
• Absorption
– When light passes through an object the intensity is reduced depending
upon the color absorbed. Thus the selective absorption of white light
produces colored light.

• Refraction
– Direction change of a ray of light passing from one transparent medium to
another with different optical density. A ray from less to more dense
medium is bent perpendicular to the surface, with greater deviation for
shorter wavelengths

• Diffraction
– Light rays bend around edges - new wavefronts are generated at sharp
edges - the smaller the aperture the lower the definition

• Dispersion
– Separation of light into its constituent wavelengths when entering a
transparent medium - the change of refractive index with wavelength,
such as the spectrum produced by a prism or a rainbow

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 16 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Control

Absorption

No blue/green light
red filter
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 17 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Absorption Chart
Color in white light

Color of light absorbed

red

blue

green

blue
green

red
red

green

yellow

blue

blue

magenta

green

cyan
black

red
red

green

gray

pink

green

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

blue
blue
Slide 18 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction
Short wavelengths are “bent”
more than long wavelengths

dispersion

Light is “bent” and the resultant colors separate (dispersion).
Red is least refracted, violet most refracted.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 19 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction

He sees the
fish here….

But it is really here!!
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 20 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Upright Scope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 21 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Inverted Microscope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 22 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscope Basics
• Originally conformed to the German DIN
standard
• Standard required the following
– real image formed at a tube length of 160mm
– the parfocal distance set to 45 mm
– object to image distance set at 195 mm

• Currently we use the ISO standard
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 23 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

The Conventional Microscope

Mechanical
tube length
= 160 mm

Object to
Image
Distance
= 195 mm

Focal length
of objective
= 45 mm
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 24 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Conventional Finite Optics
with Telan system
Ocular
Intermediate Image
195 mm

160 mm

Telan Optics
Other optics
Objective
45 mm

Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 25 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Infinity Optics
Ocular
Primary Image Plane

Tube Lens
Infinite
Image
Distance

Other optics
Other optics
Objective

The main advantage of infinity
corrected lens systems is the
relative insensitivity to
additional optics within the
tube length. Secondly one can
focus by moving the objective
and not the specimen (stage)
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 26 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Summary Lecture 1
• Upright and inverted microscopes
• Köhler illumination
• Refraction, Absorption, dispersion,
diffraction
• Magnification
• Optical Designs - 160 mm and Infinity
optics
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 27 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt


Slide 6

Lecture 1

The Principles of Microscopy
BMS 524 - “Introduction to Confocal Microscopy and Image Analysis”
Purdue University Department of Basic Medical Sciences,
School of Veterinary Medicine

J.Paul Robinson, Ph.D.
Professor of Immunopharmacology
Director, Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories
These slides are intended for use in a lecture series. Copies of the graphics are distributed and
students encouraged to take their notes on these graphics. The intent is to have the student
NOT try to reproduce the figures, but to LISTEN and UNDERSTAND the material. All
material copyright J.Paul Robinson unless stated. Textbook for this lecture series in Jim
Pawley’s “Handbook of Confocal Microscopy” Plenum Press which has been used extensively
for material and ideas to support the class.
Slide 1 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

UPDATED October 27, 1998

Evaluation
• End of term quiz - 100% grade

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 2 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to the Course









Microscopy
Fluorescence
Basic Optics
Confocal Microscopes
Basic Image Analysis
3D image analysis
Live Cell Studies
Advanced Applications

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 3 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to Lecture 1






Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Early Microscope
Modern Microscopes
Magnification
Nature of Light
Optical Designs

Slide 4 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscopes





Upright
Inverted
Köhler Illumination
Fluorescence Illumination

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 5 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Earliest Microscopes
• 1590 - Hans & Zacharias Janssen of Middleburg, Holland
manufactured the first compound microscope
• 1673 Antioni Van Leeuwenhoek created a “simple” microscope that
could magnify to about 275x, and published drawings of
microorganisms in 1683

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 6 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Early Microscopes (Hooke)

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 7 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Secondary Microscopes
• In 1827 Giovanni Battista Amici, built high quality microscopes and
introduced the first matched achromatic microscope in 1827. He
recognized the importance of coveralls thickness and developed the
concept of “water immersion”
• Carl Zeiss and Ernst Abbe developed oil immersion systems by
developing oils that matched the refractive index of glass. Dr Otto
Schott formulated glass lenses that color-corrected objectives and
produced the first “apochromatic” objectives in 1886.

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 8 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Modern Microscopes
• Early 20th Century Professor Köhler
developed the method of illumination still
called “Köhler Illumination”
• Köhler recognized that using shorter
wavelength light (UV) could improve
resolution

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 9 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler
• Köhler illumination creates an evenly
illuminated field of view while illuminating
the specimen with a very wide cone of light
• Two conjugate image planes are formed
– one contains an image of the specimen and the
other the filament from the light

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 10 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler Illumination
condenser

Field iris

Specimen

eyepiece
Field stop
retina

Conjugate planes for image-forming rays

Field iris

Specimen

Field stop

Conjugate planes for illuminating rays

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 11 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Principles
• Rule of thumb is is not to exceed 1,000
times the NA of the objective
• Modern microscopes magnify both in the
objective and the ocular and thus are called
“compound microscopes”

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 12 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification
• An object can be focussed generally no
closer than 250 mm from the eye
(depending upon how old you are!)
• this is considered to be the normal viewing
distance for 1x magnification
• Young people may be able to focus as close
as 125 mm so they can magnify as much as
2x because the image covers a larger part of
the retina
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 13 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification

1000mm

35 mm slide
24x36 mm
1000 mm
M = 36 mm = 28

The projected image is 28 times larger than we would
see it at 250 mm from our eyes.
If we used a 10x magnifier we would have a magnification
of 280x, but we would reduce the field of view by the same
factor of 10x.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 14 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Basic Microscopy
• Bright field illumination does not reveal
differences in brightness between structural
details - i.e. no contrast
• Structural details emerge via phase
differences and by staining of components
• The edge effects (diffraction, refraction,
reflection) produce contrast and detail
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 15 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Definitions
• Absorption
– When light passes through an object the intensity is reduced depending
upon the color absorbed. Thus the selective absorption of white light
produces colored light.

• Refraction
– Direction change of a ray of light passing from one transparent medium to
another with different optical density. A ray from less to more dense
medium is bent perpendicular to the surface, with greater deviation for
shorter wavelengths

• Diffraction
– Light rays bend around edges - new wavefronts are generated at sharp
edges - the smaller the aperture the lower the definition

• Dispersion
– Separation of light into its constituent wavelengths when entering a
transparent medium - the change of refractive index with wavelength,
such as the spectrum produced by a prism or a rainbow

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 16 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Control

Absorption

No blue/green light
red filter
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 17 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Absorption Chart
Color in white light

Color of light absorbed

red

blue

green

blue
green

red
red

green

yellow

blue

blue

magenta

green

cyan
black

red
red

green

gray

pink

green

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

blue
blue
Slide 18 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction
Short wavelengths are “bent”
more than long wavelengths

dispersion

Light is “bent” and the resultant colors separate (dispersion).
Red is least refracted, violet most refracted.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 19 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction

He sees the
fish here….

But it is really here!!
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 20 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Upright Scope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 21 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Inverted Microscope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 22 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscope Basics
• Originally conformed to the German DIN
standard
• Standard required the following
– real image formed at a tube length of 160mm
– the parfocal distance set to 45 mm
– object to image distance set at 195 mm

• Currently we use the ISO standard
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 23 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

The Conventional Microscope

Mechanical
tube length
= 160 mm

Object to
Image
Distance
= 195 mm

Focal length
of objective
= 45 mm
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 24 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Conventional Finite Optics
with Telan system
Ocular
Intermediate Image
195 mm

160 mm

Telan Optics
Other optics
Objective
45 mm

Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 25 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Infinity Optics
Ocular
Primary Image Plane

Tube Lens
Infinite
Image
Distance

Other optics
Other optics
Objective

The main advantage of infinity
corrected lens systems is the
relative insensitivity to
additional optics within the
tube length. Secondly one can
focus by moving the objective
and not the specimen (stage)
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 26 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Summary Lecture 1
• Upright and inverted microscopes
• Köhler illumination
• Refraction, Absorption, dispersion,
diffraction
• Magnification
• Optical Designs - 160 mm and Infinity
optics
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 27 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt


Slide 7

Lecture 1

The Principles of Microscopy
BMS 524 - “Introduction to Confocal Microscopy and Image Analysis”
Purdue University Department of Basic Medical Sciences,
School of Veterinary Medicine

J.Paul Robinson, Ph.D.
Professor of Immunopharmacology
Director, Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories
These slides are intended for use in a lecture series. Copies of the graphics are distributed and
students encouraged to take their notes on these graphics. The intent is to have the student
NOT try to reproduce the figures, but to LISTEN and UNDERSTAND the material. All
material copyright J.Paul Robinson unless stated. Textbook for this lecture series in Jim
Pawley’s “Handbook of Confocal Microscopy” Plenum Press which has been used extensively
for material and ideas to support the class.
Slide 1 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

UPDATED October 27, 1998

Evaluation
• End of term quiz - 100% grade

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 2 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to the Course









Microscopy
Fluorescence
Basic Optics
Confocal Microscopes
Basic Image Analysis
3D image analysis
Live Cell Studies
Advanced Applications

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 3 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to Lecture 1






Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Early Microscope
Modern Microscopes
Magnification
Nature of Light
Optical Designs

Slide 4 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscopes





Upright
Inverted
Köhler Illumination
Fluorescence Illumination

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 5 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Earliest Microscopes
• 1590 - Hans & Zacharias Janssen of Middleburg, Holland
manufactured the first compound microscope
• 1673 Antioni Van Leeuwenhoek created a “simple” microscope that
could magnify to about 275x, and published drawings of
microorganisms in 1683

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 6 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Early Microscopes (Hooke)

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 7 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Secondary Microscopes
• In 1827 Giovanni Battista Amici, built high quality microscopes and
introduced the first matched achromatic microscope in 1827. He
recognized the importance of coveralls thickness and developed the
concept of “water immersion”
• Carl Zeiss and Ernst Abbe developed oil immersion systems by
developing oils that matched the refractive index of glass. Dr Otto
Schott formulated glass lenses that color-corrected objectives and
produced the first “apochromatic” objectives in 1886.

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 8 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Modern Microscopes
• Early 20th Century Professor Köhler
developed the method of illumination still
called “Köhler Illumination”
• Köhler recognized that using shorter
wavelength light (UV) could improve
resolution

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 9 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler
• Köhler illumination creates an evenly
illuminated field of view while illuminating
the specimen with a very wide cone of light
• Two conjugate image planes are formed
– one contains an image of the specimen and the
other the filament from the light

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 10 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler Illumination
condenser

Field iris

Specimen

eyepiece
Field stop
retina

Conjugate planes for image-forming rays

Field iris

Specimen

Field stop

Conjugate planes for illuminating rays

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 11 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Principles
• Rule of thumb is is not to exceed 1,000
times the NA of the objective
• Modern microscopes magnify both in the
objective and the ocular and thus are called
“compound microscopes”

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 12 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification
• An object can be focussed generally no
closer than 250 mm from the eye
(depending upon how old you are!)
• this is considered to be the normal viewing
distance for 1x magnification
• Young people may be able to focus as close
as 125 mm so they can magnify as much as
2x because the image covers a larger part of
the retina
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 13 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification

1000mm

35 mm slide
24x36 mm
1000 mm
M = 36 mm = 28

The projected image is 28 times larger than we would
see it at 250 mm from our eyes.
If we used a 10x magnifier we would have a magnification
of 280x, but we would reduce the field of view by the same
factor of 10x.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 14 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Basic Microscopy
• Bright field illumination does not reveal
differences in brightness between structural
details - i.e. no contrast
• Structural details emerge via phase
differences and by staining of components
• The edge effects (diffraction, refraction,
reflection) produce contrast and detail
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 15 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Definitions
• Absorption
– When light passes through an object the intensity is reduced depending
upon the color absorbed. Thus the selective absorption of white light
produces colored light.

• Refraction
– Direction change of a ray of light passing from one transparent medium to
another with different optical density. A ray from less to more dense
medium is bent perpendicular to the surface, with greater deviation for
shorter wavelengths

• Diffraction
– Light rays bend around edges - new wavefronts are generated at sharp
edges - the smaller the aperture the lower the definition

• Dispersion
– Separation of light into its constituent wavelengths when entering a
transparent medium - the change of refractive index with wavelength,
such as the spectrum produced by a prism or a rainbow

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 16 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Control

Absorption

No blue/green light
red filter
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 17 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Absorption Chart
Color in white light

Color of light absorbed

red

blue

green

blue
green

red
red

green

yellow

blue

blue

magenta

green

cyan
black

red
red

green

gray

pink

green

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

blue
blue
Slide 18 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction
Short wavelengths are “bent”
more than long wavelengths

dispersion

Light is “bent” and the resultant colors separate (dispersion).
Red is least refracted, violet most refracted.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 19 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction

He sees the
fish here….

But it is really here!!
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 20 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Upright Scope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 21 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Inverted Microscope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 22 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscope Basics
• Originally conformed to the German DIN
standard
• Standard required the following
– real image formed at a tube length of 160mm
– the parfocal distance set to 45 mm
– object to image distance set at 195 mm

• Currently we use the ISO standard
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 23 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

The Conventional Microscope

Mechanical
tube length
= 160 mm

Object to
Image
Distance
= 195 mm

Focal length
of objective
= 45 mm
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 24 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Conventional Finite Optics
with Telan system
Ocular
Intermediate Image
195 mm

160 mm

Telan Optics
Other optics
Objective
45 mm

Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 25 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Infinity Optics
Ocular
Primary Image Plane

Tube Lens
Infinite
Image
Distance

Other optics
Other optics
Objective

The main advantage of infinity
corrected lens systems is the
relative insensitivity to
additional optics within the
tube length. Secondly one can
focus by moving the objective
and not the specimen (stage)
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 26 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Summary Lecture 1
• Upright and inverted microscopes
• Köhler illumination
• Refraction, Absorption, dispersion,
diffraction
• Magnification
• Optical Designs - 160 mm and Infinity
optics
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 27 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt


Slide 8

Lecture 1

The Principles of Microscopy
BMS 524 - “Introduction to Confocal Microscopy and Image Analysis”
Purdue University Department of Basic Medical Sciences,
School of Veterinary Medicine

J.Paul Robinson, Ph.D.
Professor of Immunopharmacology
Director, Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories
These slides are intended for use in a lecture series. Copies of the graphics are distributed and
students encouraged to take their notes on these graphics. The intent is to have the student
NOT try to reproduce the figures, but to LISTEN and UNDERSTAND the material. All
material copyright J.Paul Robinson unless stated. Textbook for this lecture series in Jim
Pawley’s “Handbook of Confocal Microscopy” Plenum Press which has been used extensively
for material and ideas to support the class.
Slide 1 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

UPDATED October 27, 1998

Evaluation
• End of term quiz - 100% grade

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 2 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to the Course









Microscopy
Fluorescence
Basic Optics
Confocal Microscopes
Basic Image Analysis
3D image analysis
Live Cell Studies
Advanced Applications

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 3 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to Lecture 1






Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Early Microscope
Modern Microscopes
Magnification
Nature of Light
Optical Designs

Slide 4 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscopes





Upright
Inverted
Köhler Illumination
Fluorescence Illumination

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 5 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Earliest Microscopes
• 1590 - Hans & Zacharias Janssen of Middleburg, Holland
manufactured the first compound microscope
• 1673 Antioni Van Leeuwenhoek created a “simple” microscope that
could magnify to about 275x, and published drawings of
microorganisms in 1683

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 6 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Early Microscopes (Hooke)

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 7 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Secondary Microscopes
• In 1827 Giovanni Battista Amici, built high quality microscopes and
introduced the first matched achromatic microscope in 1827. He
recognized the importance of coveralls thickness and developed the
concept of “water immersion”
• Carl Zeiss and Ernst Abbe developed oil immersion systems by
developing oils that matched the refractive index of glass. Dr Otto
Schott formulated glass lenses that color-corrected objectives and
produced the first “apochromatic” objectives in 1886.

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 8 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Modern Microscopes
• Early 20th Century Professor Köhler
developed the method of illumination still
called “Köhler Illumination”
• Köhler recognized that using shorter
wavelength light (UV) could improve
resolution

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 9 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler
• Köhler illumination creates an evenly
illuminated field of view while illuminating
the specimen with a very wide cone of light
• Two conjugate image planes are formed
– one contains an image of the specimen and the
other the filament from the light

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 10 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler Illumination
condenser

Field iris

Specimen

eyepiece
Field stop
retina

Conjugate planes for image-forming rays

Field iris

Specimen

Field stop

Conjugate planes for illuminating rays

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 11 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Principles
• Rule of thumb is is not to exceed 1,000
times the NA of the objective
• Modern microscopes magnify both in the
objective and the ocular and thus are called
“compound microscopes”

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 12 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification
• An object can be focussed generally no
closer than 250 mm from the eye
(depending upon how old you are!)
• this is considered to be the normal viewing
distance for 1x magnification
• Young people may be able to focus as close
as 125 mm so they can magnify as much as
2x because the image covers a larger part of
the retina
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 13 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification

1000mm

35 mm slide
24x36 mm
1000 mm
M = 36 mm = 28

The projected image is 28 times larger than we would
see it at 250 mm from our eyes.
If we used a 10x magnifier we would have a magnification
of 280x, but we would reduce the field of view by the same
factor of 10x.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 14 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Basic Microscopy
• Bright field illumination does not reveal
differences in brightness between structural
details - i.e. no contrast
• Structural details emerge via phase
differences and by staining of components
• The edge effects (diffraction, refraction,
reflection) produce contrast and detail
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 15 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Definitions
• Absorption
– When light passes through an object the intensity is reduced depending
upon the color absorbed. Thus the selective absorption of white light
produces colored light.

• Refraction
– Direction change of a ray of light passing from one transparent medium to
another with different optical density. A ray from less to more dense
medium is bent perpendicular to the surface, with greater deviation for
shorter wavelengths

• Diffraction
– Light rays bend around edges - new wavefronts are generated at sharp
edges - the smaller the aperture the lower the definition

• Dispersion
– Separation of light into its constituent wavelengths when entering a
transparent medium - the change of refractive index with wavelength,
such as the spectrum produced by a prism or a rainbow

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 16 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Control

Absorption

No blue/green light
red filter
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 17 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Absorption Chart
Color in white light

Color of light absorbed

red

blue

green

blue
green

red
red

green

yellow

blue

blue

magenta

green

cyan
black

red
red

green

gray

pink

green

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

blue
blue
Slide 18 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction
Short wavelengths are “bent”
more than long wavelengths

dispersion

Light is “bent” and the resultant colors separate (dispersion).
Red is least refracted, violet most refracted.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 19 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction

He sees the
fish here….

But it is really here!!
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 20 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Upright Scope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 21 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Inverted Microscope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 22 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscope Basics
• Originally conformed to the German DIN
standard
• Standard required the following
– real image formed at a tube length of 160mm
– the parfocal distance set to 45 mm
– object to image distance set at 195 mm

• Currently we use the ISO standard
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 23 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

The Conventional Microscope

Mechanical
tube length
= 160 mm

Object to
Image
Distance
= 195 mm

Focal length
of objective
= 45 mm
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 24 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Conventional Finite Optics
with Telan system
Ocular
Intermediate Image
195 mm

160 mm

Telan Optics
Other optics
Objective
45 mm

Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 25 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Infinity Optics
Ocular
Primary Image Plane

Tube Lens
Infinite
Image
Distance

Other optics
Other optics
Objective

The main advantage of infinity
corrected lens systems is the
relative insensitivity to
additional optics within the
tube length. Secondly one can
focus by moving the objective
and not the specimen (stage)
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 26 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Summary Lecture 1
• Upright and inverted microscopes
• Köhler illumination
• Refraction, Absorption, dispersion,
diffraction
• Magnification
• Optical Designs - 160 mm and Infinity
optics
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 27 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt


Slide 9

Lecture 1

The Principles of Microscopy
BMS 524 - “Introduction to Confocal Microscopy and Image Analysis”
Purdue University Department of Basic Medical Sciences,
School of Veterinary Medicine

J.Paul Robinson, Ph.D.
Professor of Immunopharmacology
Director, Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories
These slides are intended for use in a lecture series. Copies of the graphics are distributed and
students encouraged to take their notes on these graphics. The intent is to have the student
NOT try to reproduce the figures, but to LISTEN and UNDERSTAND the material. All
material copyright J.Paul Robinson unless stated. Textbook for this lecture series in Jim
Pawley’s “Handbook of Confocal Microscopy” Plenum Press which has been used extensively
for material and ideas to support the class.
Slide 1 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

UPDATED October 27, 1998

Evaluation
• End of term quiz - 100% grade

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 2 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to the Course









Microscopy
Fluorescence
Basic Optics
Confocal Microscopes
Basic Image Analysis
3D image analysis
Live Cell Studies
Advanced Applications

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 3 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to Lecture 1






Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Early Microscope
Modern Microscopes
Magnification
Nature of Light
Optical Designs

Slide 4 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscopes





Upright
Inverted
Köhler Illumination
Fluorescence Illumination

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 5 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Earliest Microscopes
• 1590 - Hans & Zacharias Janssen of Middleburg, Holland
manufactured the first compound microscope
• 1673 Antioni Van Leeuwenhoek created a “simple” microscope that
could magnify to about 275x, and published drawings of
microorganisms in 1683

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 6 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Early Microscopes (Hooke)

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 7 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Secondary Microscopes
• In 1827 Giovanni Battista Amici, built high quality microscopes and
introduced the first matched achromatic microscope in 1827. He
recognized the importance of coveralls thickness and developed the
concept of “water immersion”
• Carl Zeiss and Ernst Abbe developed oil immersion systems by
developing oils that matched the refractive index of glass. Dr Otto
Schott formulated glass lenses that color-corrected objectives and
produced the first “apochromatic” objectives in 1886.

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 8 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Modern Microscopes
• Early 20th Century Professor Köhler
developed the method of illumination still
called “Köhler Illumination”
• Köhler recognized that using shorter
wavelength light (UV) could improve
resolution

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 9 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler
• Köhler illumination creates an evenly
illuminated field of view while illuminating
the specimen with a very wide cone of light
• Two conjugate image planes are formed
– one contains an image of the specimen and the
other the filament from the light

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 10 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler Illumination
condenser

Field iris

Specimen

eyepiece
Field stop
retina

Conjugate planes for image-forming rays

Field iris

Specimen

Field stop

Conjugate planes for illuminating rays

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 11 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Principles
• Rule of thumb is is not to exceed 1,000
times the NA of the objective
• Modern microscopes magnify both in the
objective and the ocular and thus are called
“compound microscopes”

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 12 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification
• An object can be focussed generally no
closer than 250 mm from the eye
(depending upon how old you are!)
• this is considered to be the normal viewing
distance for 1x magnification
• Young people may be able to focus as close
as 125 mm so they can magnify as much as
2x because the image covers a larger part of
the retina
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 13 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification

1000mm

35 mm slide
24x36 mm
1000 mm
M = 36 mm = 28

The projected image is 28 times larger than we would
see it at 250 mm from our eyes.
If we used a 10x magnifier we would have a magnification
of 280x, but we would reduce the field of view by the same
factor of 10x.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 14 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Basic Microscopy
• Bright field illumination does not reveal
differences in brightness between structural
details - i.e. no contrast
• Structural details emerge via phase
differences and by staining of components
• The edge effects (diffraction, refraction,
reflection) produce contrast and detail
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 15 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Definitions
• Absorption
– When light passes through an object the intensity is reduced depending
upon the color absorbed. Thus the selective absorption of white light
produces colored light.

• Refraction
– Direction change of a ray of light passing from one transparent medium to
another with different optical density. A ray from less to more dense
medium is bent perpendicular to the surface, with greater deviation for
shorter wavelengths

• Diffraction
– Light rays bend around edges - new wavefronts are generated at sharp
edges - the smaller the aperture the lower the definition

• Dispersion
– Separation of light into its constituent wavelengths when entering a
transparent medium - the change of refractive index with wavelength,
such as the spectrum produced by a prism or a rainbow

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 16 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Control

Absorption

No blue/green light
red filter
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 17 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Absorption Chart
Color in white light

Color of light absorbed

red

blue

green

blue
green

red
red

green

yellow

blue

blue

magenta

green

cyan
black

red
red

green

gray

pink

green

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

blue
blue
Slide 18 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction
Short wavelengths are “bent”
more than long wavelengths

dispersion

Light is “bent” and the resultant colors separate (dispersion).
Red is least refracted, violet most refracted.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 19 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction

He sees the
fish here….

But it is really here!!
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 20 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Upright Scope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 21 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Inverted Microscope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 22 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscope Basics
• Originally conformed to the German DIN
standard
• Standard required the following
– real image formed at a tube length of 160mm
– the parfocal distance set to 45 mm
– object to image distance set at 195 mm

• Currently we use the ISO standard
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 23 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

The Conventional Microscope

Mechanical
tube length
= 160 mm

Object to
Image
Distance
= 195 mm

Focal length
of objective
= 45 mm
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 24 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Conventional Finite Optics
with Telan system
Ocular
Intermediate Image
195 mm

160 mm

Telan Optics
Other optics
Objective
45 mm

Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 25 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Infinity Optics
Ocular
Primary Image Plane

Tube Lens
Infinite
Image
Distance

Other optics
Other optics
Objective

The main advantage of infinity
corrected lens systems is the
relative insensitivity to
additional optics within the
tube length. Secondly one can
focus by moving the objective
and not the specimen (stage)
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 26 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Summary Lecture 1
• Upright and inverted microscopes
• Köhler illumination
• Refraction, Absorption, dispersion,
diffraction
• Magnification
• Optical Designs - 160 mm and Infinity
optics
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 27 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt


Slide 10

Lecture 1

The Principles of Microscopy
BMS 524 - “Introduction to Confocal Microscopy and Image Analysis”
Purdue University Department of Basic Medical Sciences,
School of Veterinary Medicine

J.Paul Robinson, Ph.D.
Professor of Immunopharmacology
Director, Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories
These slides are intended for use in a lecture series. Copies of the graphics are distributed and
students encouraged to take their notes on these graphics. The intent is to have the student
NOT try to reproduce the figures, but to LISTEN and UNDERSTAND the material. All
material copyright J.Paul Robinson unless stated. Textbook for this lecture series in Jim
Pawley’s “Handbook of Confocal Microscopy” Plenum Press which has been used extensively
for material and ideas to support the class.
Slide 1 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

UPDATED October 27, 1998

Evaluation
• End of term quiz - 100% grade

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 2 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to the Course









Microscopy
Fluorescence
Basic Optics
Confocal Microscopes
Basic Image Analysis
3D image analysis
Live Cell Studies
Advanced Applications

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 3 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to Lecture 1






Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Early Microscope
Modern Microscopes
Magnification
Nature of Light
Optical Designs

Slide 4 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscopes





Upright
Inverted
Köhler Illumination
Fluorescence Illumination

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 5 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Earliest Microscopes
• 1590 - Hans & Zacharias Janssen of Middleburg, Holland
manufactured the first compound microscope
• 1673 Antioni Van Leeuwenhoek created a “simple” microscope that
could magnify to about 275x, and published drawings of
microorganisms in 1683

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 6 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Early Microscopes (Hooke)

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 7 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Secondary Microscopes
• In 1827 Giovanni Battista Amici, built high quality microscopes and
introduced the first matched achromatic microscope in 1827. He
recognized the importance of coveralls thickness and developed the
concept of “water immersion”
• Carl Zeiss and Ernst Abbe developed oil immersion systems by
developing oils that matched the refractive index of glass. Dr Otto
Schott formulated glass lenses that color-corrected objectives and
produced the first “apochromatic” objectives in 1886.

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 8 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Modern Microscopes
• Early 20th Century Professor Köhler
developed the method of illumination still
called “Köhler Illumination”
• Köhler recognized that using shorter
wavelength light (UV) could improve
resolution

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 9 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler
• Köhler illumination creates an evenly
illuminated field of view while illuminating
the specimen with a very wide cone of light
• Two conjugate image planes are formed
– one contains an image of the specimen and the
other the filament from the light

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 10 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler Illumination
condenser

Field iris

Specimen

eyepiece
Field stop
retina

Conjugate planes for image-forming rays

Field iris

Specimen

Field stop

Conjugate planes for illuminating rays

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 11 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Principles
• Rule of thumb is is not to exceed 1,000
times the NA of the objective
• Modern microscopes magnify both in the
objective and the ocular and thus are called
“compound microscopes”

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 12 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification
• An object can be focussed generally no
closer than 250 mm from the eye
(depending upon how old you are!)
• this is considered to be the normal viewing
distance for 1x magnification
• Young people may be able to focus as close
as 125 mm so they can magnify as much as
2x because the image covers a larger part of
the retina
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 13 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification

1000mm

35 mm slide
24x36 mm
1000 mm
M = 36 mm = 28

The projected image is 28 times larger than we would
see it at 250 mm from our eyes.
If we used a 10x magnifier we would have a magnification
of 280x, but we would reduce the field of view by the same
factor of 10x.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 14 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Basic Microscopy
• Bright field illumination does not reveal
differences in brightness between structural
details - i.e. no contrast
• Structural details emerge via phase
differences and by staining of components
• The edge effects (diffraction, refraction,
reflection) produce contrast and detail
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 15 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Definitions
• Absorption
– When light passes through an object the intensity is reduced depending
upon the color absorbed. Thus the selective absorption of white light
produces colored light.

• Refraction
– Direction change of a ray of light passing from one transparent medium to
another with different optical density. A ray from less to more dense
medium is bent perpendicular to the surface, with greater deviation for
shorter wavelengths

• Diffraction
– Light rays bend around edges - new wavefronts are generated at sharp
edges - the smaller the aperture the lower the definition

• Dispersion
– Separation of light into its constituent wavelengths when entering a
transparent medium - the change of refractive index with wavelength,
such as the spectrum produced by a prism or a rainbow

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 16 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Control

Absorption

No blue/green light
red filter
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 17 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Absorption Chart
Color in white light

Color of light absorbed

red

blue

green

blue
green

red
red

green

yellow

blue

blue

magenta

green

cyan
black

red
red

green

gray

pink

green

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

blue
blue
Slide 18 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction
Short wavelengths are “bent”
more than long wavelengths

dispersion

Light is “bent” and the resultant colors separate (dispersion).
Red is least refracted, violet most refracted.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 19 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction

He sees the
fish here….

But it is really here!!
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 20 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Upright Scope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 21 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Inverted Microscope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 22 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscope Basics
• Originally conformed to the German DIN
standard
• Standard required the following
– real image formed at a tube length of 160mm
– the parfocal distance set to 45 mm
– object to image distance set at 195 mm

• Currently we use the ISO standard
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 23 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

The Conventional Microscope

Mechanical
tube length
= 160 mm

Object to
Image
Distance
= 195 mm

Focal length
of objective
= 45 mm
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 24 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Conventional Finite Optics
with Telan system
Ocular
Intermediate Image
195 mm

160 mm

Telan Optics
Other optics
Objective
45 mm

Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 25 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Infinity Optics
Ocular
Primary Image Plane

Tube Lens
Infinite
Image
Distance

Other optics
Other optics
Objective

The main advantage of infinity
corrected lens systems is the
relative insensitivity to
additional optics within the
tube length. Secondly one can
focus by moving the objective
and not the specimen (stage)
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 26 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Summary Lecture 1
• Upright and inverted microscopes
• Köhler illumination
• Refraction, Absorption, dispersion,
diffraction
• Magnification
• Optical Designs - 160 mm and Infinity
optics
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 27 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt


Slide 11

Lecture 1

The Principles of Microscopy
BMS 524 - “Introduction to Confocal Microscopy and Image Analysis”
Purdue University Department of Basic Medical Sciences,
School of Veterinary Medicine

J.Paul Robinson, Ph.D.
Professor of Immunopharmacology
Director, Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories
These slides are intended for use in a lecture series. Copies of the graphics are distributed and
students encouraged to take their notes on these graphics. The intent is to have the student
NOT try to reproduce the figures, but to LISTEN and UNDERSTAND the material. All
material copyright J.Paul Robinson unless stated. Textbook for this lecture series in Jim
Pawley’s “Handbook of Confocal Microscopy” Plenum Press which has been used extensively
for material and ideas to support the class.
Slide 1 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

UPDATED October 27, 1998

Evaluation
• End of term quiz - 100% grade

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 2 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to the Course









Microscopy
Fluorescence
Basic Optics
Confocal Microscopes
Basic Image Analysis
3D image analysis
Live Cell Studies
Advanced Applications

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 3 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to Lecture 1






Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Early Microscope
Modern Microscopes
Magnification
Nature of Light
Optical Designs

Slide 4 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscopes





Upright
Inverted
Köhler Illumination
Fluorescence Illumination

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 5 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Earliest Microscopes
• 1590 - Hans & Zacharias Janssen of Middleburg, Holland
manufactured the first compound microscope
• 1673 Antioni Van Leeuwenhoek created a “simple” microscope that
could magnify to about 275x, and published drawings of
microorganisms in 1683

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 6 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Early Microscopes (Hooke)

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 7 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Secondary Microscopes
• In 1827 Giovanni Battista Amici, built high quality microscopes and
introduced the first matched achromatic microscope in 1827. He
recognized the importance of coveralls thickness and developed the
concept of “water immersion”
• Carl Zeiss and Ernst Abbe developed oil immersion systems by
developing oils that matched the refractive index of glass. Dr Otto
Schott formulated glass lenses that color-corrected objectives and
produced the first “apochromatic” objectives in 1886.

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 8 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Modern Microscopes
• Early 20th Century Professor Köhler
developed the method of illumination still
called “Köhler Illumination”
• Köhler recognized that using shorter
wavelength light (UV) could improve
resolution

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 9 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler
• Köhler illumination creates an evenly
illuminated field of view while illuminating
the specimen with a very wide cone of light
• Two conjugate image planes are formed
– one contains an image of the specimen and the
other the filament from the light

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 10 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler Illumination
condenser

Field iris

Specimen

eyepiece
Field stop
retina

Conjugate planes for image-forming rays

Field iris

Specimen

Field stop

Conjugate planes for illuminating rays

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 11 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Principles
• Rule of thumb is is not to exceed 1,000
times the NA of the objective
• Modern microscopes magnify both in the
objective and the ocular and thus are called
“compound microscopes”

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 12 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification
• An object can be focussed generally no
closer than 250 mm from the eye
(depending upon how old you are!)
• this is considered to be the normal viewing
distance for 1x magnification
• Young people may be able to focus as close
as 125 mm so they can magnify as much as
2x because the image covers a larger part of
the retina
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 13 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification

1000mm

35 mm slide
24x36 mm
1000 mm
M = 36 mm = 28

The projected image is 28 times larger than we would
see it at 250 mm from our eyes.
If we used a 10x magnifier we would have a magnification
of 280x, but we would reduce the field of view by the same
factor of 10x.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 14 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Basic Microscopy
• Bright field illumination does not reveal
differences in brightness between structural
details - i.e. no contrast
• Structural details emerge via phase
differences and by staining of components
• The edge effects (diffraction, refraction,
reflection) produce contrast and detail
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 15 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Definitions
• Absorption
– When light passes through an object the intensity is reduced depending
upon the color absorbed. Thus the selective absorption of white light
produces colored light.

• Refraction
– Direction change of a ray of light passing from one transparent medium to
another with different optical density. A ray from less to more dense
medium is bent perpendicular to the surface, with greater deviation for
shorter wavelengths

• Diffraction
– Light rays bend around edges - new wavefronts are generated at sharp
edges - the smaller the aperture the lower the definition

• Dispersion
– Separation of light into its constituent wavelengths when entering a
transparent medium - the change of refractive index with wavelength,
such as the spectrum produced by a prism or a rainbow

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 16 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Control

Absorption

No blue/green light
red filter
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 17 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Absorption Chart
Color in white light

Color of light absorbed

red

blue

green

blue
green

red
red

green

yellow

blue

blue

magenta

green

cyan
black

red
red

green

gray

pink

green

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

blue
blue
Slide 18 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction
Short wavelengths are “bent”
more than long wavelengths

dispersion

Light is “bent” and the resultant colors separate (dispersion).
Red is least refracted, violet most refracted.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 19 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction

He sees the
fish here….

But it is really here!!
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 20 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Upright Scope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 21 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Inverted Microscope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 22 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscope Basics
• Originally conformed to the German DIN
standard
• Standard required the following
– real image formed at a tube length of 160mm
– the parfocal distance set to 45 mm
– object to image distance set at 195 mm

• Currently we use the ISO standard
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 23 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

The Conventional Microscope

Mechanical
tube length
= 160 mm

Object to
Image
Distance
= 195 mm

Focal length
of objective
= 45 mm
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 24 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Conventional Finite Optics
with Telan system
Ocular
Intermediate Image
195 mm

160 mm

Telan Optics
Other optics
Objective
45 mm

Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 25 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Infinity Optics
Ocular
Primary Image Plane

Tube Lens
Infinite
Image
Distance

Other optics
Other optics
Objective

The main advantage of infinity
corrected lens systems is the
relative insensitivity to
additional optics within the
tube length. Secondly one can
focus by moving the objective
and not the specimen (stage)
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 26 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Summary Lecture 1
• Upright and inverted microscopes
• Köhler illumination
• Refraction, Absorption, dispersion,
diffraction
• Magnification
• Optical Designs - 160 mm and Infinity
optics
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 27 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt


Slide 12

Lecture 1

The Principles of Microscopy
BMS 524 - “Introduction to Confocal Microscopy and Image Analysis”
Purdue University Department of Basic Medical Sciences,
School of Veterinary Medicine

J.Paul Robinson, Ph.D.
Professor of Immunopharmacology
Director, Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories
These slides are intended for use in a lecture series. Copies of the graphics are distributed and
students encouraged to take their notes on these graphics. The intent is to have the student
NOT try to reproduce the figures, but to LISTEN and UNDERSTAND the material. All
material copyright J.Paul Robinson unless stated. Textbook for this lecture series in Jim
Pawley’s “Handbook of Confocal Microscopy” Plenum Press which has been used extensively
for material and ideas to support the class.
Slide 1 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

UPDATED October 27, 1998

Evaluation
• End of term quiz - 100% grade

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 2 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to the Course









Microscopy
Fluorescence
Basic Optics
Confocal Microscopes
Basic Image Analysis
3D image analysis
Live Cell Studies
Advanced Applications

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 3 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to Lecture 1






Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Early Microscope
Modern Microscopes
Magnification
Nature of Light
Optical Designs

Slide 4 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscopes





Upright
Inverted
Köhler Illumination
Fluorescence Illumination

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 5 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Earliest Microscopes
• 1590 - Hans & Zacharias Janssen of Middleburg, Holland
manufactured the first compound microscope
• 1673 Antioni Van Leeuwenhoek created a “simple” microscope that
could magnify to about 275x, and published drawings of
microorganisms in 1683

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 6 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Early Microscopes (Hooke)

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 7 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Secondary Microscopes
• In 1827 Giovanni Battista Amici, built high quality microscopes and
introduced the first matched achromatic microscope in 1827. He
recognized the importance of coveralls thickness and developed the
concept of “water immersion”
• Carl Zeiss and Ernst Abbe developed oil immersion systems by
developing oils that matched the refractive index of glass. Dr Otto
Schott formulated glass lenses that color-corrected objectives and
produced the first “apochromatic” objectives in 1886.

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 8 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Modern Microscopes
• Early 20th Century Professor Köhler
developed the method of illumination still
called “Köhler Illumination”
• Köhler recognized that using shorter
wavelength light (UV) could improve
resolution

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 9 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler
• Köhler illumination creates an evenly
illuminated field of view while illuminating
the specimen with a very wide cone of light
• Two conjugate image planes are formed
– one contains an image of the specimen and the
other the filament from the light

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 10 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler Illumination
condenser

Field iris

Specimen

eyepiece
Field stop
retina

Conjugate planes for image-forming rays

Field iris

Specimen

Field stop

Conjugate planes for illuminating rays

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 11 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Principles
• Rule of thumb is is not to exceed 1,000
times the NA of the objective
• Modern microscopes magnify both in the
objective and the ocular and thus are called
“compound microscopes”

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 12 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification
• An object can be focussed generally no
closer than 250 mm from the eye
(depending upon how old you are!)
• this is considered to be the normal viewing
distance for 1x magnification
• Young people may be able to focus as close
as 125 mm so they can magnify as much as
2x because the image covers a larger part of
the retina
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 13 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification

1000mm

35 mm slide
24x36 mm
1000 mm
M = 36 mm = 28

The projected image is 28 times larger than we would
see it at 250 mm from our eyes.
If we used a 10x magnifier we would have a magnification
of 280x, but we would reduce the field of view by the same
factor of 10x.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 14 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Basic Microscopy
• Bright field illumination does not reveal
differences in brightness between structural
details - i.e. no contrast
• Structural details emerge via phase
differences and by staining of components
• The edge effects (diffraction, refraction,
reflection) produce contrast and detail
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 15 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Definitions
• Absorption
– When light passes through an object the intensity is reduced depending
upon the color absorbed. Thus the selective absorption of white light
produces colored light.

• Refraction
– Direction change of a ray of light passing from one transparent medium to
another with different optical density. A ray from less to more dense
medium is bent perpendicular to the surface, with greater deviation for
shorter wavelengths

• Diffraction
– Light rays bend around edges - new wavefronts are generated at sharp
edges - the smaller the aperture the lower the definition

• Dispersion
– Separation of light into its constituent wavelengths when entering a
transparent medium - the change of refractive index with wavelength,
such as the spectrum produced by a prism or a rainbow

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 16 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Control

Absorption

No blue/green light
red filter
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 17 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Absorption Chart
Color in white light

Color of light absorbed

red

blue

green

blue
green

red
red

green

yellow

blue

blue

magenta

green

cyan
black

red
red

green

gray

pink

green

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

blue
blue
Slide 18 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction
Short wavelengths are “bent”
more than long wavelengths

dispersion

Light is “bent” and the resultant colors separate (dispersion).
Red is least refracted, violet most refracted.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 19 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction

He sees the
fish here….

But it is really here!!
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 20 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Upright Scope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 21 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Inverted Microscope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 22 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscope Basics
• Originally conformed to the German DIN
standard
• Standard required the following
– real image formed at a tube length of 160mm
– the parfocal distance set to 45 mm
– object to image distance set at 195 mm

• Currently we use the ISO standard
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 23 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

The Conventional Microscope

Mechanical
tube length
= 160 mm

Object to
Image
Distance
= 195 mm

Focal length
of objective
= 45 mm
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 24 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Conventional Finite Optics
with Telan system
Ocular
Intermediate Image
195 mm

160 mm

Telan Optics
Other optics
Objective
45 mm

Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 25 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Infinity Optics
Ocular
Primary Image Plane

Tube Lens
Infinite
Image
Distance

Other optics
Other optics
Objective

The main advantage of infinity
corrected lens systems is the
relative insensitivity to
additional optics within the
tube length. Secondly one can
focus by moving the objective
and not the specimen (stage)
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 26 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Summary Lecture 1
• Upright and inverted microscopes
• Köhler illumination
• Refraction, Absorption, dispersion,
diffraction
• Magnification
• Optical Designs - 160 mm and Infinity
optics
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 27 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt


Slide 13

Lecture 1

The Principles of Microscopy
BMS 524 - “Introduction to Confocal Microscopy and Image Analysis”
Purdue University Department of Basic Medical Sciences,
School of Veterinary Medicine

J.Paul Robinson, Ph.D.
Professor of Immunopharmacology
Director, Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories
These slides are intended for use in a lecture series. Copies of the graphics are distributed and
students encouraged to take their notes on these graphics. The intent is to have the student
NOT try to reproduce the figures, but to LISTEN and UNDERSTAND the material. All
material copyright J.Paul Robinson unless stated. Textbook for this lecture series in Jim
Pawley’s “Handbook of Confocal Microscopy” Plenum Press which has been used extensively
for material and ideas to support the class.
Slide 1 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

UPDATED October 27, 1998

Evaluation
• End of term quiz - 100% grade

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 2 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to the Course









Microscopy
Fluorescence
Basic Optics
Confocal Microscopes
Basic Image Analysis
3D image analysis
Live Cell Studies
Advanced Applications

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 3 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to Lecture 1






Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Early Microscope
Modern Microscopes
Magnification
Nature of Light
Optical Designs

Slide 4 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscopes





Upright
Inverted
Köhler Illumination
Fluorescence Illumination

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 5 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Earliest Microscopes
• 1590 - Hans & Zacharias Janssen of Middleburg, Holland
manufactured the first compound microscope
• 1673 Antioni Van Leeuwenhoek created a “simple” microscope that
could magnify to about 275x, and published drawings of
microorganisms in 1683

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 6 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Early Microscopes (Hooke)

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 7 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Secondary Microscopes
• In 1827 Giovanni Battista Amici, built high quality microscopes and
introduced the first matched achromatic microscope in 1827. He
recognized the importance of coveralls thickness and developed the
concept of “water immersion”
• Carl Zeiss and Ernst Abbe developed oil immersion systems by
developing oils that matched the refractive index of glass. Dr Otto
Schott formulated glass lenses that color-corrected objectives and
produced the first “apochromatic” objectives in 1886.

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 8 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Modern Microscopes
• Early 20th Century Professor Köhler
developed the method of illumination still
called “Köhler Illumination”
• Köhler recognized that using shorter
wavelength light (UV) could improve
resolution

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 9 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler
• Köhler illumination creates an evenly
illuminated field of view while illuminating
the specimen with a very wide cone of light
• Two conjugate image planes are formed
– one contains an image of the specimen and the
other the filament from the light

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 10 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler Illumination
condenser

Field iris

Specimen

eyepiece
Field stop
retina

Conjugate planes for image-forming rays

Field iris

Specimen

Field stop

Conjugate planes for illuminating rays

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 11 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Principles
• Rule of thumb is is not to exceed 1,000
times the NA of the objective
• Modern microscopes magnify both in the
objective and the ocular and thus are called
“compound microscopes”

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 12 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification
• An object can be focussed generally no
closer than 250 mm from the eye
(depending upon how old you are!)
• this is considered to be the normal viewing
distance for 1x magnification
• Young people may be able to focus as close
as 125 mm so they can magnify as much as
2x because the image covers a larger part of
the retina
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 13 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification

1000mm

35 mm slide
24x36 mm
1000 mm
M = 36 mm = 28

The projected image is 28 times larger than we would
see it at 250 mm from our eyes.
If we used a 10x magnifier we would have a magnification
of 280x, but we would reduce the field of view by the same
factor of 10x.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 14 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Basic Microscopy
• Bright field illumination does not reveal
differences in brightness between structural
details - i.e. no contrast
• Structural details emerge via phase
differences and by staining of components
• The edge effects (diffraction, refraction,
reflection) produce contrast and detail
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 15 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Definitions
• Absorption
– When light passes through an object the intensity is reduced depending
upon the color absorbed. Thus the selective absorption of white light
produces colored light.

• Refraction
– Direction change of a ray of light passing from one transparent medium to
another with different optical density. A ray from less to more dense
medium is bent perpendicular to the surface, with greater deviation for
shorter wavelengths

• Diffraction
– Light rays bend around edges - new wavefronts are generated at sharp
edges - the smaller the aperture the lower the definition

• Dispersion
– Separation of light into its constituent wavelengths when entering a
transparent medium - the change of refractive index with wavelength,
such as the spectrum produced by a prism or a rainbow

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 16 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Control

Absorption

No blue/green light
red filter
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 17 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Absorption Chart
Color in white light

Color of light absorbed

red

blue

green

blue
green

red
red

green

yellow

blue

blue

magenta

green

cyan
black

red
red

green

gray

pink

green

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

blue
blue
Slide 18 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction
Short wavelengths are “bent”
more than long wavelengths

dispersion

Light is “bent” and the resultant colors separate (dispersion).
Red is least refracted, violet most refracted.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 19 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction

He sees the
fish here….

But it is really here!!
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 20 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Upright Scope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 21 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Inverted Microscope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 22 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscope Basics
• Originally conformed to the German DIN
standard
• Standard required the following
– real image formed at a tube length of 160mm
– the parfocal distance set to 45 mm
– object to image distance set at 195 mm

• Currently we use the ISO standard
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 23 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

The Conventional Microscope

Mechanical
tube length
= 160 mm

Object to
Image
Distance
= 195 mm

Focal length
of objective
= 45 mm
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 24 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Conventional Finite Optics
with Telan system
Ocular
Intermediate Image
195 mm

160 mm

Telan Optics
Other optics
Objective
45 mm

Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 25 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Infinity Optics
Ocular
Primary Image Plane

Tube Lens
Infinite
Image
Distance

Other optics
Other optics
Objective

The main advantage of infinity
corrected lens systems is the
relative insensitivity to
additional optics within the
tube length. Secondly one can
focus by moving the objective
and not the specimen (stage)
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 26 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Summary Lecture 1
• Upright and inverted microscopes
• Köhler illumination
• Refraction, Absorption, dispersion,
diffraction
• Magnification
• Optical Designs - 160 mm and Infinity
optics
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 27 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt


Slide 14

Lecture 1

The Principles of Microscopy
BMS 524 - “Introduction to Confocal Microscopy and Image Analysis”
Purdue University Department of Basic Medical Sciences,
School of Veterinary Medicine

J.Paul Robinson, Ph.D.
Professor of Immunopharmacology
Director, Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories
These slides are intended for use in a lecture series. Copies of the graphics are distributed and
students encouraged to take their notes on these graphics. The intent is to have the student
NOT try to reproduce the figures, but to LISTEN and UNDERSTAND the material. All
material copyright J.Paul Robinson unless stated. Textbook for this lecture series in Jim
Pawley’s “Handbook of Confocal Microscopy” Plenum Press which has been used extensively
for material and ideas to support the class.
Slide 1 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

UPDATED October 27, 1998

Evaluation
• End of term quiz - 100% grade

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 2 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to the Course









Microscopy
Fluorescence
Basic Optics
Confocal Microscopes
Basic Image Analysis
3D image analysis
Live Cell Studies
Advanced Applications

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 3 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to Lecture 1






Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Early Microscope
Modern Microscopes
Magnification
Nature of Light
Optical Designs

Slide 4 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscopes





Upright
Inverted
Köhler Illumination
Fluorescence Illumination

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 5 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Earliest Microscopes
• 1590 - Hans & Zacharias Janssen of Middleburg, Holland
manufactured the first compound microscope
• 1673 Antioni Van Leeuwenhoek created a “simple” microscope that
could magnify to about 275x, and published drawings of
microorganisms in 1683

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 6 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Early Microscopes (Hooke)

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 7 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Secondary Microscopes
• In 1827 Giovanni Battista Amici, built high quality microscopes and
introduced the first matched achromatic microscope in 1827. He
recognized the importance of coveralls thickness and developed the
concept of “water immersion”
• Carl Zeiss and Ernst Abbe developed oil immersion systems by
developing oils that matched the refractive index of glass. Dr Otto
Schott formulated glass lenses that color-corrected objectives and
produced the first “apochromatic” objectives in 1886.

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 8 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Modern Microscopes
• Early 20th Century Professor Köhler
developed the method of illumination still
called “Köhler Illumination”
• Köhler recognized that using shorter
wavelength light (UV) could improve
resolution

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 9 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler
• Köhler illumination creates an evenly
illuminated field of view while illuminating
the specimen with a very wide cone of light
• Two conjugate image planes are formed
– one contains an image of the specimen and the
other the filament from the light

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 10 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler Illumination
condenser

Field iris

Specimen

eyepiece
Field stop
retina

Conjugate planes for image-forming rays

Field iris

Specimen

Field stop

Conjugate planes for illuminating rays

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 11 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Principles
• Rule of thumb is is not to exceed 1,000
times the NA of the objective
• Modern microscopes magnify both in the
objective and the ocular and thus are called
“compound microscopes”

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 12 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification
• An object can be focussed generally no
closer than 250 mm from the eye
(depending upon how old you are!)
• this is considered to be the normal viewing
distance for 1x magnification
• Young people may be able to focus as close
as 125 mm so they can magnify as much as
2x because the image covers a larger part of
the retina
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 13 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification

1000mm

35 mm slide
24x36 mm
1000 mm
M = 36 mm = 28

The projected image is 28 times larger than we would
see it at 250 mm from our eyes.
If we used a 10x magnifier we would have a magnification
of 280x, but we would reduce the field of view by the same
factor of 10x.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 14 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Basic Microscopy
• Bright field illumination does not reveal
differences in brightness between structural
details - i.e. no contrast
• Structural details emerge via phase
differences and by staining of components
• The edge effects (diffraction, refraction,
reflection) produce contrast and detail
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 15 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Definitions
• Absorption
– When light passes through an object the intensity is reduced depending
upon the color absorbed. Thus the selective absorption of white light
produces colored light.

• Refraction
– Direction change of a ray of light passing from one transparent medium to
another with different optical density. A ray from less to more dense
medium is bent perpendicular to the surface, with greater deviation for
shorter wavelengths

• Diffraction
– Light rays bend around edges - new wavefronts are generated at sharp
edges - the smaller the aperture the lower the definition

• Dispersion
– Separation of light into its constituent wavelengths when entering a
transparent medium - the change of refractive index with wavelength,
such as the spectrum produced by a prism or a rainbow

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 16 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Control

Absorption

No blue/green light
red filter
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 17 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Absorption Chart
Color in white light

Color of light absorbed

red

blue

green

blue
green

red
red

green

yellow

blue

blue

magenta

green

cyan
black

red
red

green

gray

pink

green

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

blue
blue
Slide 18 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction
Short wavelengths are “bent”
more than long wavelengths

dispersion

Light is “bent” and the resultant colors separate (dispersion).
Red is least refracted, violet most refracted.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 19 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction

He sees the
fish here….

But it is really here!!
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 20 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Upright Scope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 21 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Inverted Microscope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 22 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscope Basics
• Originally conformed to the German DIN
standard
• Standard required the following
– real image formed at a tube length of 160mm
– the parfocal distance set to 45 mm
– object to image distance set at 195 mm

• Currently we use the ISO standard
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 23 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

The Conventional Microscope

Mechanical
tube length
= 160 mm

Object to
Image
Distance
= 195 mm

Focal length
of objective
= 45 mm
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 24 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Conventional Finite Optics
with Telan system
Ocular
Intermediate Image
195 mm

160 mm

Telan Optics
Other optics
Objective
45 mm

Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 25 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Infinity Optics
Ocular
Primary Image Plane

Tube Lens
Infinite
Image
Distance

Other optics
Other optics
Objective

The main advantage of infinity
corrected lens systems is the
relative insensitivity to
additional optics within the
tube length. Secondly one can
focus by moving the objective
and not the specimen (stage)
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 26 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Summary Lecture 1
• Upright and inverted microscopes
• Köhler illumination
• Refraction, Absorption, dispersion,
diffraction
• Magnification
• Optical Designs - 160 mm and Infinity
optics
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 27 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt


Slide 15

Lecture 1

The Principles of Microscopy
BMS 524 - “Introduction to Confocal Microscopy and Image Analysis”
Purdue University Department of Basic Medical Sciences,
School of Veterinary Medicine

J.Paul Robinson, Ph.D.
Professor of Immunopharmacology
Director, Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories
These slides are intended for use in a lecture series. Copies of the graphics are distributed and
students encouraged to take their notes on these graphics. The intent is to have the student
NOT try to reproduce the figures, but to LISTEN and UNDERSTAND the material. All
material copyright J.Paul Robinson unless stated. Textbook for this lecture series in Jim
Pawley’s “Handbook of Confocal Microscopy” Plenum Press which has been used extensively
for material and ideas to support the class.
Slide 1 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

UPDATED October 27, 1998

Evaluation
• End of term quiz - 100% grade

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 2 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to the Course









Microscopy
Fluorescence
Basic Optics
Confocal Microscopes
Basic Image Analysis
3D image analysis
Live Cell Studies
Advanced Applications

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 3 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to Lecture 1






Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Early Microscope
Modern Microscopes
Magnification
Nature of Light
Optical Designs

Slide 4 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscopes





Upright
Inverted
Köhler Illumination
Fluorescence Illumination

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 5 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Earliest Microscopes
• 1590 - Hans & Zacharias Janssen of Middleburg, Holland
manufactured the first compound microscope
• 1673 Antioni Van Leeuwenhoek created a “simple” microscope that
could magnify to about 275x, and published drawings of
microorganisms in 1683

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 6 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Early Microscopes (Hooke)

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 7 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Secondary Microscopes
• In 1827 Giovanni Battista Amici, built high quality microscopes and
introduced the first matched achromatic microscope in 1827. He
recognized the importance of coveralls thickness and developed the
concept of “water immersion”
• Carl Zeiss and Ernst Abbe developed oil immersion systems by
developing oils that matched the refractive index of glass. Dr Otto
Schott formulated glass lenses that color-corrected objectives and
produced the first “apochromatic” objectives in 1886.

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 8 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Modern Microscopes
• Early 20th Century Professor Köhler
developed the method of illumination still
called “Köhler Illumination”
• Köhler recognized that using shorter
wavelength light (UV) could improve
resolution

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 9 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler
• Köhler illumination creates an evenly
illuminated field of view while illuminating
the specimen with a very wide cone of light
• Two conjugate image planes are formed
– one contains an image of the specimen and the
other the filament from the light

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 10 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler Illumination
condenser

Field iris

Specimen

eyepiece
Field stop
retina

Conjugate planes for image-forming rays

Field iris

Specimen

Field stop

Conjugate planes for illuminating rays

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 11 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Principles
• Rule of thumb is is not to exceed 1,000
times the NA of the objective
• Modern microscopes magnify both in the
objective and the ocular and thus are called
“compound microscopes”

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 12 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification
• An object can be focussed generally no
closer than 250 mm from the eye
(depending upon how old you are!)
• this is considered to be the normal viewing
distance for 1x magnification
• Young people may be able to focus as close
as 125 mm so they can magnify as much as
2x because the image covers a larger part of
the retina
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 13 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification

1000mm

35 mm slide
24x36 mm
1000 mm
M = 36 mm = 28

The projected image is 28 times larger than we would
see it at 250 mm from our eyes.
If we used a 10x magnifier we would have a magnification
of 280x, but we would reduce the field of view by the same
factor of 10x.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 14 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Basic Microscopy
• Bright field illumination does not reveal
differences in brightness between structural
details - i.e. no contrast
• Structural details emerge via phase
differences and by staining of components
• The edge effects (diffraction, refraction,
reflection) produce contrast and detail
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 15 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Definitions
• Absorption
– When light passes through an object the intensity is reduced depending
upon the color absorbed. Thus the selective absorption of white light
produces colored light.

• Refraction
– Direction change of a ray of light passing from one transparent medium to
another with different optical density. A ray from less to more dense
medium is bent perpendicular to the surface, with greater deviation for
shorter wavelengths

• Diffraction
– Light rays bend around edges - new wavefronts are generated at sharp
edges - the smaller the aperture the lower the definition

• Dispersion
– Separation of light into its constituent wavelengths when entering a
transparent medium - the change of refractive index with wavelength,
such as the spectrum produced by a prism or a rainbow

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 16 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Control

Absorption

No blue/green light
red filter
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 17 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Absorption Chart
Color in white light

Color of light absorbed

red

blue

green

blue
green

red
red

green

yellow

blue

blue

magenta

green

cyan
black

red
red

green

gray

pink

green

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

blue
blue
Slide 18 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction
Short wavelengths are “bent”
more than long wavelengths

dispersion

Light is “bent” and the resultant colors separate (dispersion).
Red is least refracted, violet most refracted.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 19 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction

He sees the
fish here….

But it is really here!!
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 20 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Upright Scope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 21 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Inverted Microscope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 22 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscope Basics
• Originally conformed to the German DIN
standard
• Standard required the following
– real image formed at a tube length of 160mm
– the parfocal distance set to 45 mm
– object to image distance set at 195 mm

• Currently we use the ISO standard
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 23 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

The Conventional Microscope

Mechanical
tube length
= 160 mm

Object to
Image
Distance
= 195 mm

Focal length
of objective
= 45 mm
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 24 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Conventional Finite Optics
with Telan system
Ocular
Intermediate Image
195 mm

160 mm

Telan Optics
Other optics
Objective
45 mm

Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 25 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Infinity Optics
Ocular
Primary Image Plane

Tube Lens
Infinite
Image
Distance

Other optics
Other optics
Objective

The main advantage of infinity
corrected lens systems is the
relative insensitivity to
additional optics within the
tube length. Secondly one can
focus by moving the objective
and not the specimen (stage)
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 26 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Summary Lecture 1
• Upright and inverted microscopes
• Köhler illumination
• Refraction, Absorption, dispersion,
diffraction
• Magnification
• Optical Designs - 160 mm and Infinity
optics
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 27 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt


Slide 16

Lecture 1

The Principles of Microscopy
BMS 524 - “Introduction to Confocal Microscopy and Image Analysis”
Purdue University Department of Basic Medical Sciences,
School of Veterinary Medicine

J.Paul Robinson, Ph.D.
Professor of Immunopharmacology
Director, Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories
These slides are intended for use in a lecture series. Copies of the graphics are distributed and
students encouraged to take their notes on these graphics. The intent is to have the student
NOT try to reproduce the figures, but to LISTEN and UNDERSTAND the material. All
material copyright J.Paul Robinson unless stated. Textbook for this lecture series in Jim
Pawley’s “Handbook of Confocal Microscopy” Plenum Press which has been used extensively
for material and ideas to support the class.
Slide 1 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

UPDATED October 27, 1998

Evaluation
• End of term quiz - 100% grade

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 2 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to the Course









Microscopy
Fluorescence
Basic Optics
Confocal Microscopes
Basic Image Analysis
3D image analysis
Live Cell Studies
Advanced Applications

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 3 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to Lecture 1






Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Early Microscope
Modern Microscopes
Magnification
Nature of Light
Optical Designs

Slide 4 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscopes





Upright
Inverted
Köhler Illumination
Fluorescence Illumination

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 5 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Earliest Microscopes
• 1590 - Hans & Zacharias Janssen of Middleburg, Holland
manufactured the first compound microscope
• 1673 Antioni Van Leeuwenhoek created a “simple” microscope that
could magnify to about 275x, and published drawings of
microorganisms in 1683

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 6 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Early Microscopes (Hooke)

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 7 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Secondary Microscopes
• In 1827 Giovanni Battista Amici, built high quality microscopes and
introduced the first matched achromatic microscope in 1827. He
recognized the importance of coveralls thickness and developed the
concept of “water immersion”
• Carl Zeiss and Ernst Abbe developed oil immersion systems by
developing oils that matched the refractive index of glass. Dr Otto
Schott formulated glass lenses that color-corrected objectives and
produced the first “apochromatic” objectives in 1886.

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 8 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Modern Microscopes
• Early 20th Century Professor Köhler
developed the method of illumination still
called “Köhler Illumination”
• Köhler recognized that using shorter
wavelength light (UV) could improve
resolution

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 9 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler
• Köhler illumination creates an evenly
illuminated field of view while illuminating
the specimen with a very wide cone of light
• Two conjugate image planes are formed
– one contains an image of the specimen and the
other the filament from the light

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 10 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler Illumination
condenser

Field iris

Specimen

eyepiece
Field stop
retina

Conjugate planes for image-forming rays

Field iris

Specimen

Field stop

Conjugate planes for illuminating rays

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 11 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Principles
• Rule of thumb is is not to exceed 1,000
times the NA of the objective
• Modern microscopes magnify both in the
objective and the ocular and thus are called
“compound microscopes”

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 12 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification
• An object can be focussed generally no
closer than 250 mm from the eye
(depending upon how old you are!)
• this is considered to be the normal viewing
distance for 1x magnification
• Young people may be able to focus as close
as 125 mm so they can magnify as much as
2x because the image covers a larger part of
the retina
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 13 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification

1000mm

35 mm slide
24x36 mm
1000 mm
M = 36 mm = 28

The projected image is 28 times larger than we would
see it at 250 mm from our eyes.
If we used a 10x magnifier we would have a magnification
of 280x, but we would reduce the field of view by the same
factor of 10x.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 14 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Basic Microscopy
• Bright field illumination does not reveal
differences in brightness between structural
details - i.e. no contrast
• Structural details emerge via phase
differences and by staining of components
• The edge effects (diffraction, refraction,
reflection) produce contrast and detail
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 15 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Definitions
• Absorption
– When light passes through an object the intensity is reduced depending
upon the color absorbed. Thus the selective absorption of white light
produces colored light.

• Refraction
– Direction change of a ray of light passing from one transparent medium to
another with different optical density. A ray from less to more dense
medium is bent perpendicular to the surface, with greater deviation for
shorter wavelengths

• Diffraction
– Light rays bend around edges - new wavefronts are generated at sharp
edges - the smaller the aperture the lower the definition

• Dispersion
– Separation of light into its constituent wavelengths when entering a
transparent medium - the change of refractive index with wavelength,
such as the spectrum produced by a prism or a rainbow

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 16 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Control

Absorption

No blue/green light
red filter
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 17 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Absorption Chart
Color in white light

Color of light absorbed

red

blue

green

blue
green

red
red

green

yellow

blue

blue

magenta

green

cyan
black

red
red

green

gray

pink

green

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

blue
blue
Slide 18 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction
Short wavelengths are “bent”
more than long wavelengths

dispersion

Light is “bent” and the resultant colors separate (dispersion).
Red is least refracted, violet most refracted.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 19 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction

He sees the
fish here….

But it is really here!!
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 20 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Upright Scope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 21 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Inverted Microscope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 22 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscope Basics
• Originally conformed to the German DIN
standard
• Standard required the following
– real image formed at a tube length of 160mm
– the parfocal distance set to 45 mm
– object to image distance set at 195 mm

• Currently we use the ISO standard
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 23 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

The Conventional Microscope

Mechanical
tube length
= 160 mm

Object to
Image
Distance
= 195 mm

Focal length
of objective
= 45 mm
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 24 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Conventional Finite Optics
with Telan system
Ocular
Intermediate Image
195 mm

160 mm

Telan Optics
Other optics
Objective
45 mm

Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 25 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Infinity Optics
Ocular
Primary Image Plane

Tube Lens
Infinite
Image
Distance

Other optics
Other optics
Objective

The main advantage of infinity
corrected lens systems is the
relative insensitivity to
additional optics within the
tube length. Secondly one can
focus by moving the objective
and not the specimen (stage)
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 26 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Summary Lecture 1
• Upright and inverted microscopes
• Köhler illumination
• Refraction, Absorption, dispersion,
diffraction
• Magnification
• Optical Designs - 160 mm and Infinity
optics
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 27 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt


Slide 17

Lecture 1

The Principles of Microscopy
BMS 524 - “Introduction to Confocal Microscopy and Image Analysis”
Purdue University Department of Basic Medical Sciences,
School of Veterinary Medicine

J.Paul Robinson, Ph.D.
Professor of Immunopharmacology
Director, Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories
These slides are intended for use in a lecture series. Copies of the graphics are distributed and
students encouraged to take their notes on these graphics. The intent is to have the student
NOT try to reproduce the figures, but to LISTEN and UNDERSTAND the material. All
material copyright J.Paul Robinson unless stated. Textbook for this lecture series in Jim
Pawley’s “Handbook of Confocal Microscopy” Plenum Press which has been used extensively
for material and ideas to support the class.
Slide 1 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

UPDATED October 27, 1998

Evaluation
• End of term quiz - 100% grade

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 2 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to the Course









Microscopy
Fluorescence
Basic Optics
Confocal Microscopes
Basic Image Analysis
3D image analysis
Live Cell Studies
Advanced Applications

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 3 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to Lecture 1






Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Early Microscope
Modern Microscopes
Magnification
Nature of Light
Optical Designs

Slide 4 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscopes





Upright
Inverted
Köhler Illumination
Fluorescence Illumination

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 5 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Earliest Microscopes
• 1590 - Hans & Zacharias Janssen of Middleburg, Holland
manufactured the first compound microscope
• 1673 Antioni Van Leeuwenhoek created a “simple” microscope that
could magnify to about 275x, and published drawings of
microorganisms in 1683

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 6 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Early Microscopes (Hooke)

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 7 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Secondary Microscopes
• In 1827 Giovanni Battista Amici, built high quality microscopes and
introduced the first matched achromatic microscope in 1827. He
recognized the importance of coveralls thickness and developed the
concept of “water immersion”
• Carl Zeiss and Ernst Abbe developed oil immersion systems by
developing oils that matched the refractive index of glass. Dr Otto
Schott formulated glass lenses that color-corrected objectives and
produced the first “apochromatic” objectives in 1886.

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 8 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Modern Microscopes
• Early 20th Century Professor Köhler
developed the method of illumination still
called “Köhler Illumination”
• Köhler recognized that using shorter
wavelength light (UV) could improve
resolution

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 9 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler
• Köhler illumination creates an evenly
illuminated field of view while illuminating
the specimen with a very wide cone of light
• Two conjugate image planes are formed
– one contains an image of the specimen and the
other the filament from the light

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 10 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler Illumination
condenser

Field iris

Specimen

eyepiece
Field stop
retina

Conjugate planes for image-forming rays

Field iris

Specimen

Field stop

Conjugate planes for illuminating rays

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 11 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Principles
• Rule of thumb is is not to exceed 1,000
times the NA of the objective
• Modern microscopes magnify both in the
objective and the ocular and thus are called
“compound microscopes”

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 12 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification
• An object can be focussed generally no
closer than 250 mm from the eye
(depending upon how old you are!)
• this is considered to be the normal viewing
distance for 1x magnification
• Young people may be able to focus as close
as 125 mm so they can magnify as much as
2x because the image covers a larger part of
the retina
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 13 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification

1000mm

35 mm slide
24x36 mm
1000 mm
M = 36 mm = 28

The projected image is 28 times larger than we would
see it at 250 mm from our eyes.
If we used a 10x magnifier we would have a magnification
of 280x, but we would reduce the field of view by the same
factor of 10x.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 14 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Basic Microscopy
• Bright field illumination does not reveal
differences in brightness between structural
details - i.e. no contrast
• Structural details emerge via phase
differences and by staining of components
• The edge effects (diffraction, refraction,
reflection) produce contrast and detail
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 15 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Definitions
• Absorption
– When light passes through an object the intensity is reduced depending
upon the color absorbed. Thus the selective absorption of white light
produces colored light.

• Refraction
– Direction change of a ray of light passing from one transparent medium to
another with different optical density. A ray from less to more dense
medium is bent perpendicular to the surface, with greater deviation for
shorter wavelengths

• Diffraction
– Light rays bend around edges - new wavefronts are generated at sharp
edges - the smaller the aperture the lower the definition

• Dispersion
– Separation of light into its constituent wavelengths when entering a
transparent medium - the change of refractive index with wavelength,
such as the spectrum produced by a prism or a rainbow

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 16 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Control

Absorption

No blue/green light
red filter
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 17 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Absorption Chart
Color in white light

Color of light absorbed

red

blue

green

blue
green

red
red

green

yellow

blue

blue

magenta

green

cyan
black

red
red

green

gray

pink

green

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

blue
blue
Slide 18 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction
Short wavelengths are “bent”
more than long wavelengths

dispersion

Light is “bent” and the resultant colors separate (dispersion).
Red is least refracted, violet most refracted.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 19 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction

He sees the
fish here….

But it is really here!!
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 20 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Upright Scope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 21 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Inverted Microscope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 22 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscope Basics
• Originally conformed to the German DIN
standard
• Standard required the following
– real image formed at a tube length of 160mm
– the parfocal distance set to 45 mm
– object to image distance set at 195 mm

• Currently we use the ISO standard
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 23 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

The Conventional Microscope

Mechanical
tube length
= 160 mm

Object to
Image
Distance
= 195 mm

Focal length
of objective
= 45 mm
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 24 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Conventional Finite Optics
with Telan system
Ocular
Intermediate Image
195 mm

160 mm

Telan Optics
Other optics
Objective
45 mm

Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 25 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Infinity Optics
Ocular
Primary Image Plane

Tube Lens
Infinite
Image
Distance

Other optics
Other optics
Objective

The main advantage of infinity
corrected lens systems is the
relative insensitivity to
additional optics within the
tube length. Secondly one can
focus by moving the objective
and not the specimen (stage)
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 26 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Summary Lecture 1
• Upright and inverted microscopes
• Köhler illumination
• Refraction, Absorption, dispersion,
diffraction
• Magnification
• Optical Designs - 160 mm and Infinity
optics
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 27 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt


Slide 18

Lecture 1

The Principles of Microscopy
BMS 524 - “Introduction to Confocal Microscopy and Image Analysis”
Purdue University Department of Basic Medical Sciences,
School of Veterinary Medicine

J.Paul Robinson, Ph.D.
Professor of Immunopharmacology
Director, Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories
These slides are intended for use in a lecture series. Copies of the graphics are distributed and
students encouraged to take their notes on these graphics. The intent is to have the student
NOT try to reproduce the figures, but to LISTEN and UNDERSTAND the material. All
material copyright J.Paul Robinson unless stated. Textbook for this lecture series in Jim
Pawley’s “Handbook of Confocal Microscopy” Plenum Press which has been used extensively
for material and ideas to support the class.
Slide 1 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

UPDATED October 27, 1998

Evaluation
• End of term quiz - 100% grade

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 2 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to the Course









Microscopy
Fluorescence
Basic Optics
Confocal Microscopes
Basic Image Analysis
3D image analysis
Live Cell Studies
Advanced Applications

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 3 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to Lecture 1






Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Early Microscope
Modern Microscopes
Magnification
Nature of Light
Optical Designs

Slide 4 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscopes





Upright
Inverted
Köhler Illumination
Fluorescence Illumination

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 5 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Earliest Microscopes
• 1590 - Hans & Zacharias Janssen of Middleburg, Holland
manufactured the first compound microscope
• 1673 Antioni Van Leeuwenhoek created a “simple” microscope that
could magnify to about 275x, and published drawings of
microorganisms in 1683

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 6 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Early Microscopes (Hooke)

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 7 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Secondary Microscopes
• In 1827 Giovanni Battista Amici, built high quality microscopes and
introduced the first matched achromatic microscope in 1827. He
recognized the importance of coveralls thickness and developed the
concept of “water immersion”
• Carl Zeiss and Ernst Abbe developed oil immersion systems by
developing oils that matched the refractive index of glass. Dr Otto
Schott formulated glass lenses that color-corrected objectives and
produced the first “apochromatic” objectives in 1886.

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 8 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Modern Microscopes
• Early 20th Century Professor Köhler
developed the method of illumination still
called “Köhler Illumination”
• Köhler recognized that using shorter
wavelength light (UV) could improve
resolution

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 9 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler
• Köhler illumination creates an evenly
illuminated field of view while illuminating
the specimen with a very wide cone of light
• Two conjugate image planes are formed
– one contains an image of the specimen and the
other the filament from the light

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 10 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler Illumination
condenser

Field iris

Specimen

eyepiece
Field stop
retina

Conjugate planes for image-forming rays

Field iris

Specimen

Field stop

Conjugate planes for illuminating rays

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 11 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Principles
• Rule of thumb is is not to exceed 1,000
times the NA of the objective
• Modern microscopes magnify both in the
objective and the ocular and thus are called
“compound microscopes”

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 12 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification
• An object can be focussed generally no
closer than 250 mm from the eye
(depending upon how old you are!)
• this is considered to be the normal viewing
distance for 1x magnification
• Young people may be able to focus as close
as 125 mm so they can magnify as much as
2x because the image covers a larger part of
the retina
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 13 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification

1000mm

35 mm slide
24x36 mm
1000 mm
M = 36 mm = 28

The projected image is 28 times larger than we would
see it at 250 mm from our eyes.
If we used a 10x magnifier we would have a magnification
of 280x, but we would reduce the field of view by the same
factor of 10x.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 14 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Basic Microscopy
• Bright field illumination does not reveal
differences in brightness between structural
details - i.e. no contrast
• Structural details emerge via phase
differences and by staining of components
• The edge effects (diffraction, refraction,
reflection) produce contrast and detail
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 15 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Definitions
• Absorption
– When light passes through an object the intensity is reduced depending
upon the color absorbed. Thus the selective absorption of white light
produces colored light.

• Refraction
– Direction change of a ray of light passing from one transparent medium to
another with different optical density. A ray from less to more dense
medium is bent perpendicular to the surface, with greater deviation for
shorter wavelengths

• Diffraction
– Light rays bend around edges - new wavefronts are generated at sharp
edges - the smaller the aperture the lower the definition

• Dispersion
– Separation of light into its constituent wavelengths when entering a
transparent medium - the change of refractive index with wavelength,
such as the spectrum produced by a prism or a rainbow

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 16 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Control

Absorption

No blue/green light
red filter
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 17 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Absorption Chart
Color in white light

Color of light absorbed

red

blue

green

blue
green

red
red

green

yellow

blue

blue

magenta

green

cyan
black

red
red

green

gray

pink

green

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

blue
blue
Slide 18 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction
Short wavelengths are “bent”
more than long wavelengths

dispersion

Light is “bent” and the resultant colors separate (dispersion).
Red is least refracted, violet most refracted.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 19 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction

He sees the
fish here….

But it is really here!!
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 20 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Upright Scope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 21 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Inverted Microscope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 22 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscope Basics
• Originally conformed to the German DIN
standard
• Standard required the following
– real image formed at a tube length of 160mm
– the parfocal distance set to 45 mm
– object to image distance set at 195 mm

• Currently we use the ISO standard
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 23 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

The Conventional Microscope

Mechanical
tube length
= 160 mm

Object to
Image
Distance
= 195 mm

Focal length
of objective
= 45 mm
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 24 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Conventional Finite Optics
with Telan system
Ocular
Intermediate Image
195 mm

160 mm

Telan Optics
Other optics
Objective
45 mm

Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 25 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Infinity Optics
Ocular
Primary Image Plane

Tube Lens
Infinite
Image
Distance

Other optics
Other optics
Objective

The main advantage of infinity
corrected lens systems is the
relative insensitivity to
additional optics within the
tube length. Secondly one can
focus by moving the objective
and not the specimen (stage)
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 26 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Summary Lecture 1
• Upright and inverted microscopes
• Köhler illumination
• Refraction, Absorption, dispersion,
diffraction
• Magnification
• Optical Designs - 160 mm and Infinity
optics
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 27 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt


Slide 19

Lecture 1

The Principles of Microscopy
BMS 524 - “Introduction to Confocal Microscopy and Image Analysis”
Purdue University Department of Basic Medical Sciences,
School of Veterinary Medicine

J.Paul Robinson, Ph.D.
Professor of Immunopharmacology
Director, Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories
These slides are intended for use in a lecture series. Copies of the graphics are distributed and
students encouraged to take their notes on these graphics. The intent is to have the student
NOT try to reproduce the figures, but to LISTEN and UNDERSTAND the material. All
material copyright J.Paul Robinson unless stated. Textbook for this lecture series in Jim
Pawley’s “Handbook of Confocal Microscopy” Plenum Press which has been used extensively
for material and ideas to support the class.
Slide 1 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

UPDATED October 27, 1998

Evaluation
• End of term quiz - 100% grade

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 2 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to the Course









Microscopy
Fluorescence
Basic Optics
Confocal Microscopes
Basic Image Analysis
3D image analysis
Live Cell Studies
Advanced Applications

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 3 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to Lecture 1






Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Early Microscope
Modern Microscopes
Magnification
Nature of Light
Optical Designs

Slide 4 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscopes





Upright
Inverted
Köhler Illumination
Fluorescence Illumination

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 5 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Earliest Microscopes
• 1590 - Hans & Zacharias Janssen of Middleburg, Holland
manufactured the first compound microscope
• 1673 Antioni Van Leeuwenhoek created a “simple” microscope that
could magnify to about 275x, and published drawings of
microorganisms in 1683

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 6 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Early Microscopes (Hooke)

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 7 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Secondary Microscopes
• In 1827 Giovanni Battista Amici, built high quality microscopes and
introduced the first matched achromatic microscope in 1827. He
recognized the importance of coveralls thickness and developed the
concept of “water immersion”
• Carl Zeiss and Ernst Abbe developed oil immersion systems by
developing oils that matched the refractive index of glass. Dr Otto
Schott formulated glass lenses that color-corrected objectives and
produced the first “apochromatic” objectives in 1886.

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 8 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Modern Microscopes
• Early 20th Century Professor Köhler
developed the method of illumination still
called “Köhler Illumination”
• Köhler recognized that using shorter
wavelength light (UV) could improve
resolution

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 9 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler
• Köhler illumination creates an evenly
illuminated field of view while illuminating
the specimen with a very wide cone of light
• Two conjugate image planes are formed
– one contains an image of the specimen and the
other the filament from the light

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 10 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler Illumination
condenser

Field iris

Specimen

eyepiece
Field stop
retina

Conjugate planes for image-forming rays

Field iris

Specimen

Field stop

Conjugate planes for illuminating rays

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 11 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Principles
• Rule of thumb is is not to exceed 1,000
times the NA of the objective
• Modern microscopes magnify both in the
objective and the ocular and thus are called
“compound microscopes”

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 12 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification
• An object can be focussed generally no
closer than 250 mm from the eye
(depending upon how old you are!)
• this is considered to be the normal viewing
distance for 1x magnification
• Young people may be able to focus as close
as 125 mm so they can magnify as much as
2x because the image covers a larger part of
the retina
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 13 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification

1000mm

35 mm slide
24x36 mm
1000 mm
M = 36 mm = 28

The projected image is 28 times larger than we would
see it at 250 mm from our eyes.
If we used a 10x magnifier we would have a magnification
of 280x, but we would reduce the field of view by the same
factor of 10x.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 14 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Basic Microscopy
• Bright field illumination does not reveal
differences in brightness between structural
details - i.e. no contrast
• Structural details emerge via phase
differences and by staining of components
• The edge effects (diffraction, refraction,
reflection) produce contrast and detail
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 15 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Definitions
• Absorption
– When light passes through an object the intensity is reduced depending
upon the color absorbed. Thus the selective absorption of white light
produces colored light.

• Refraction
– Direction change of a ray of light passing from one transparent medium to
another with different optical density. A ray from less to more dense
medium is bent perpendicular to the surface, with greater deviation for
shorter wavelengths

• Diffraction
– Light rays bend around edges - new wavefronts are generated at sharp
edges - the smaller the aperture the lower the definition

• Dispersion
– Separation of light into its constituent wavelengths when entering a
transparent medium - the change of refractive index with wavelength,
such as the spectrum produced by a prism or a rainbow

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 16 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Control

Absorption

No blue/green light
red filter
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 17 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Absorption Chart
Color in white light

Color of light absorbed

red

blue

green

blue
green

red
red

green

yellow

blue

blue

magenta

green

cyan
black

red
red

green

gray

pink

green

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

blue
blue
Slide 18 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction
Short wavelengths are “bent”
more than long wavelengths

dispersion

Light is “bent” and the resultant colors separate (dispersion).
Red is least refracted, violet most refracted.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 19 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction

He sees the
fish here….

But it is really here!!
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 20 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Upright Scope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 21 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Inverted Microscope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 22 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscope Basics
• Originally conformed to the German DIN
standard
• Standard required the following
– real image formed at a tube length of 160mm
– the parfocal distance set to 45 mm
– object to image distance set at 195 mm

• Currently we use the ISO standard
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 23 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

The Conventional Microscope

Mechanical
tube length
= 160 mm

Object to
Image
Distance
= 195 mm

Focal length
of objective
= 45 mm
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 24 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Conventional Finite Optics
with Telan system
Ocular
Intermediate Image
195 mm

160 mm

Telan Optics
Other optics
Objective
45 mm

Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 25 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Infinity Optics
Ocular
Primary Image Plane

Tube Lens
Infinite
Image
Distance

Other optics
Other optics
Objective

The main advantage of infinity
corrected lens systems is the
relative insensitivity to
additional optics within the
tube length. Secondly one can
focus by moving the objective
and not the specimen (stage)
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 26 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Summary Lecture 1
• Upright and inverted microscopes
• Köhler illumination
• Refraction, Absorption, dispersion,
diffraction
• Magnification
• Optical Designs - 160 mm and Infinity
optics
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 27 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt


Slide 20

Lecture 1

The Principles of Microscopy
BMS 524 - “Introduction to Confocal Microscopy and Image Analysis”
Purdue University Department of Basic Medical Sciences,
School of Veterinary Medicine

J.Paul Robinson, Ph.D.
Professor of Immunopharmacology
Director, Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories
These slides are intended for use in a lecture series. Copies of the graphics are distributed and
students encouraged to take their notes on these graphics. The intent is to have the student
NOT try to reproduce the figures, but to LISTEN and UNDERSTAND the material. All
material copyright J.Paul Robinson unless stated. Textbook for this lecture series in Jim
Pawley’s “Handbook of Confocal Microscopy” Plenum Press which has been used extensively
for material and ideas to support the class.
Slide 1 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

UPDATED October 27, 1998

Evaluation
• End of term quiz - 100% grade

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 2 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to the Course









Microscopy
Fluorescence
Basic Optics
Confocal Microscopes
Basic Image Analysis
3D image analysis
Live Cell Studies
Advanced Applications

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 3 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to Lecture 1






Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Early Microscope
Modern Microscopes
Magnification
Nature of Light
Optical Designs

Slide 4 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscopes





Upright
Inverted
Köhler Illumination
Fluorescence Illumination

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 5 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Earliest Microscopes
• 1590 - Hans & Zacharias Janssen of Middleburg, Holland
manufactured the first compound microscope
• 1673 Antioni Van Leeuwenhoek created a “simple” microscope that
could magnify to about 275x, and published drawings of
microorganisms in 1683

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 6 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Early Microscopes (Hooke)

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 7 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Secondary Microscopes
• In 1827 Giovanni Battista Amici, built high quality microscopes and
introduced the first matched achromatic microscope in 1827. He
recognized the importance of coveralls thickness and developed the
concept of “water immersion”
• Carl Zeiss and Ernst Abbe developed oil immersion systems by
developing oils that matched the refractive index of glass. Dr Otto
Schott formulated glass lenses that color-corrected objectives and
produced the first “apochromatic” objectives in 1886.

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 8 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Modern Microscopes
• Early 20th Century Professor Köhler
developed the method of illumination still
called “Köhler Illumination”
• Köhler recognized that using shorter
wavelength light (UV) could improve
resolution

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 9 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler
• Köhler illumination creates an evenly
illuminated field of view while illuminating
the specimen with a very wide cone of light
• Two conjugate image planes are formed
– one contains an image of the specimen and the
other the filament from the light

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 10 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler Illumination
condenser

Field iris

Specimen

eyepiece
Field stop
retina

Conjugate planes for image-forming rays

Field iris

Specimen

Field stop

Conjugate planes for illuminating rays

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 11 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Principles
• Rule of thumb is is not to exceed 1,000
times the NA of the objective
• Modern microscopes magnify both in the
objective and the ocular and thus are called
“compound microscopes”

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 12 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification
• An object can be focussed generally no
closer than 250 mm from the eye
(depending upon how old you are!)
• this is considered to be the normal viewing
distance for 1x magnification
• Young people may be able to focus as close
as 125 mm so they can magnify as much as
2x because the image covers a larger part of
the retina
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 13 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification

1000mm

35 mm slide
24x36 mm
1000 mm
M = 36 mm = 28

The projected image is 28 times larger than we would
see it at 250 mm from our eyes.
If we used a 10x magnifier we would have a magnification
of 280x, but we would reduce the field of view by the same
factor of 10x.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 14 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Basic Microscopy
• Bright field illumination does not reveal
differences in brightness between structural
details - i.e. no contrast
• Structural details emerge via phase
differences and by staining of components
• The edge effects (diffraction, refraction,
reflection) produce contrast and detail
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 15 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Definitions
• Absorption
– When light passes through an object the intensity is reduced depending
upon the color absorbed. Thus the selective absorption of white light
produces colored light.

• Refraction
– Direction change of a ray of light passing from one transparent medium to
another with different optical density. A ray from less to more dense
medium is bent perpendicular to the surface, with greater deviation for
shorter wavelengths

• Diffraction
– Light rays bend around edges - new wavefronts are generated at sharp
edges - the smaller the aperture the lower the definition

• Dispersion
– Separation of light into its constituent wavelengths when entering a
transparent medium - the change of refractive index with wavelength,
such as the spectrum produced by a prism or a rainbow

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 16 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Control

Absorption

No blue/green light
red filter
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 17 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Absorption Chart
Color in white light

Color of light absorbed

red

blue

green

blue
green

red
red

green

yellow

blue

blue

magenta

green

cyan
black

red
red

green

gray

pink

green

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

blue
blue
Slide 18 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction
Short wavelengths are “bent”
more than long wavelengths

dispersion

Light is “bent” and the resultant colors separate (dispersion).
Red is least refracted, violet most refracted.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 19 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction

He sees the
fish here….

But it is really here!!
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 20 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Upright Scope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 21 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Inverted Microscope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 22 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscope Basics
• Originally conformed to the German DIN
standard
• Standard required the following
– real image formed at a tube length of 160mm
– the parfocal distance set to 45 mm
– object to image distance set at 195 mm

• Currently we use the ISO standard
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 23 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

The Conventional Microscope

Mechanical
tube length
= 160 mm

Object to
Image
Distance
= 195 mm

Focal length
of objective
= 45 mm
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 24 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Conventional Finite Optics
with Telan system
Ocular
Intermediate Image
195 mm

160 mm

Telan Optics
Other optics
Objective
45 mm

Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 25 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Infinity Optics
Ocular
Primary Image Plane

Tube Lens
Infinite
Image
Distance

Other optics
Other optics
Objective

The main advantage of infinity
corrected lens systems is the
relative insensitivity to
additional optics within the
tube length. Secondly one can
focus by moving the objective
and not the specimen (stage)
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 26 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Summary Lecture 1
• Upright and inverted microscopes
• Köhler illumination
• Refraction, Absorption, dispersion,
diffraction
• Magnification
• Optical Designs - 160 mm and Infinity
optics
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 27 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt


Slide 21

Lecture 1

The Principles of Microscopy
BMS 524 - “Introduction to Confocal Microscopy and Image Analysis”
Purdue University Department of Basic Medical Sciences,
School of Veterinary Medicine

J.Paul Robinson, Ph.D.
Professor of Immunopharmacology
Director, Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories
These slides are intended for use in a lecture series. Copies of the graphics are distributed and
students encouraged to take their notes on these graphics. The intent is to have the student
NOT try to reproduce the figures, but to LISTEN and UNDERSTAND the material. All
material copyright J.Paul Robinson unless stated. Textbook for this lecture series in Jim
Pawley’s “Handbook of Confocal Microscopy” Plenum Press which has been used extensively
for material and ideas to support the class.
Slide 1 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

UPDATED October 27, 1998

Evaluation
• End of term quiz - 100% grade

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 2 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to the Course









Microscopy
Fluorescence
Basic Optics
Confocal Microscopes
Basic Image Analysis
3D image analysis
Live Cell Studies
Advanced Applications

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 3 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to Lecture 1






Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Early Microscope
Modern Microscopes
Magnification
Nature of Light
Optical Designs

Slide 4 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscopes





Upright
Inverted
Köhler Illumination
Fluorescence Illumination

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 5 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Earliest Microscopes
• 1590 - Hans & Zacharias Janssen of Middleburg, Holland
manufactured the first compound microscope
• 1673 Antioni Van Leeuwenhoek created a “simple” microscope that
could magnify to about 275x, and published drawings of
microorganisms in 1683

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 6 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Early Microscopes (Hooke)

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 7 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Secondary Microscopes
• In 1827 Giovanni Battista Amici, built high quality microscopes and
introduced the first matched achromatic microscope in 1827. He
recognized the importance of coveralls thickness and developed the
concept of “water immersion”
• Carl Zeiss and Ernst Abbe developed oil immersion systems by
developing oils that matched the refractive index of glass. Dr Otto
Schott formulated glass lenses that color-corrected objectives and
produced the first “apochromatic” objectives in 1886.

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 8 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Modern Microscopes
• Early 20th Century Professor Köhler
developed the method of illumination still
called “Köhler Illumination”
• Köhler recognized that using shorter
wavelength light (UV) could improve
resolution

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 9 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler
• Köhler illumination creates an evenly
illuminated field of view while illuminating
the specimen with a very wide cone of light
• Two conjugate image planes are formed
– one contains an image of the specimen and the
other the filament from the light

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 10 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler Illumination
condenser

Field iris

Specimen

eyepiece
Field stop
retina

Conjugate planes for image-forming rays

Field iris

Specimen

Field stop

Conjugate planes for illuminating rays

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 11 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Principles
• Rule of thumb is is not to exceed 1,000
times the NA of the objective
• Modern microscopes magnify both in the
objective and the ocular and thus are called
“compound microscopes”

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 12 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification
• An object can be focussed generally no
closer than 250 mm from the eye
(depending upon how old you are!)
• this is considered to be the normal viewing
distance for 1x magnification
• Young people may be able to focus as close
as 125 mm so they can magnify as much as
2x because the image covers a larger part of
the retina
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 13 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification

1000mm

35 mm slide
24x36 mm
1000 mm
M = 36 mm = 28

The projected image is 28 times larger than we would
see it at 250 mm from our eyes.
If we used a 10x magnifier we would have a magnification
of 280x, but we would reduce the field of view by the same
factor of 10x.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 14 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Basic Microscopy
• Bright field illumination does not reveal
differences in brightness between structural
details - i.e. no contrast
• Structural details emerge via phase
differences and by staining of components
• The edge effects (diffraction, refraction,
reflection) produce contrast and detail
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 15 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Definitions
• Absorption
– When light passes through an object the intensity is reduced depending
upon the color absorbed. Thus the selective absorption of white light
produces colored light.

• Refraction
– Direction change of a ray of light passing from one transparent medium to
another with different optical density. A ray from less to more dense
medium is bent perpendicular to the surface, with greater deviation for
shorter wavelengths

• Diffraction
– Light rays bend around edges - new wavefronts are generated at sharp
edges - the smaller the aperture the lower the definition

• Dispersion
– Separation of light into its constituent wavelengths when entering a
transparent medium - the change of refractive index with wavelength,
such as the spectrum produced by a prism or a rainbow

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 16 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Control

Absorption

No blue/green light
red filter
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 17 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Absorption Chart
Color in white light

Color of light absorbed

red

blue

green

blue
green

red
red

green

yellow

blue

blue

magenta

green

cyan
black

red
red

green

gray

pink

green

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

blue
blue
Slide 18 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction
Short wavelengths are “bent”
more than long wavelengths

dispersion

Light is “bent” and the resultant colors separate (dispersion).
Red is least refracted, violet most refracted.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 19 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction

He sees the
fish here….

But it is really here!!
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 20 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Upright Scope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 21 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Inverted Microscope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 22 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscope Basics
• Originally conformed to the German DIN
standard
• Standard required the following
– real image formed at a tube length of 160mm
– the parfocal distance set to 45 mm
– object to image distance set at 195 mm

• Currently we use the ISO standard
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 23 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

The Conventional Microscope

Mechanical
tube length
= 160 mm

Object to
Image
Distance
= 195 mm

Focal length
of objective
= 45 mm
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 24 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Conventional Finite Optics
with Telan system
Ocular
Intermediate Image
195 mm

160 mm

Telan Optics
Other optics
Objective
45 mm

Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 25 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Infinity Optics
Ocular
Primary Image Plane

Tube Lens
Infinite
Image
Distance

Other optics
Other optics
Objective

The main advantage of infinity
corrected lens systems is the
relative insensitivity to
additional optics within the
tube length. Secondly one can
focus by moving the objective
and not the specimen (stage)
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 26 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Summary Lecture 1
• Upright and inverted microscopes
• Köhler illumination
• Refraction, Absorption, dispersion,
diffraction
• Magnification
• Optical Designs - 160 mm and Infinity
optics
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 27 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt


Slide 22

Lecture 1

The Principles of Microscopy
BMS 524 - “Introduction to Confocal Microscopy and Image Analysis”
Purdue University Department of Basic Medical Sciences,
School of Veterinary Medicine

J.Paul Robinson, Ph.D.
Professor of Immunopharmacology
Director, Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories
These slides are intended for use in a lecture series. Copies of the graphics are distributed and
students encouraged to take their notes on these graphics. The intent is to have the student
NOT try to reproduce the figures, but to LISTEN and UNDERSTAND the material. All
material copyright J.Paul Robinson unless stated. Textbook for this lecture series in Jim
Pawley’s “Handbook of Confocal Microscopy” Plenum Press which has been used extensively
for material and ideas to support the class.
Slide 1 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

UPDATED October 27, 1998

Evaluation
• End of term quiz - 100% grade

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 2 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to the Course









Microscopy
Fluorescence
Basic Optics
Confocal Microscopes
Basic Image Analysis
3D image analysis
Live Cell Studies
Advanced Applications

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 3 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to Lecture 1






Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Early Microscope
Modern Microscopes
Magnification
Nature of Light
Optical Designs

Slide 4 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscopes





Upright
Inverted
Köhler Illumination
Fluorescence Illumination

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 5 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Earliest Microscopes
• 1590 - Hans & Zacharias Janssen of Middleburg, Holland
manufactured the first compound microscope
• 1673 Antioni Van Leeuwenhoek created a “simple” microscope that
could magnify to about 275x, and published drawings of
microorganisms in 1683

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 6 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Early Microscopes (Hooke)

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 7 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Secondary Microscopes
• In 1827 Giovanni Battista Amici, built high quality microscopes and
introduced the first matched achromatic microscope in 1827. He
recognized the importance of coveralls thickness and developed the
concept of “water immersion”
• Carl Zeiss and Ernst Abbe developed oil immersion systems by
developing oils that matched the refractive index of glass. Dr Otto
Schott formulated glass lenses that color-corrected objectives and
produced the first “apochromatic” objectives in 1886.

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 8 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Modern Microscopes
• Early 20th Century Professor Köhler
developed the method of illumination still
called “Köhler Illumination”
• Köhler recognized that using shorter
wavelength light (UV) could improve
resolution

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 9 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler
• Köhler illumination creates an evenly
illuminated field of view while illuminating
the specimen with a very wide cone of light
• Two conjugate image planes are formed
– one contains an image of the specimen and the
other the filament from the light

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 10 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler Illumination
condenser

Field iris

Specimen

eyepiece
Field stop
retina

Conjugate planes for image-forming rays

Field iris

Specimen

Field stop

Conjugate planes for illuminating rays

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 11 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Principles
• Rule of thumb is is not to exceed 1,000
times the NA of the objective
• Modern microscopes magnify both in the
objective and the ocular and thus are called
“compound microscopes”

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 12 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification
• An object can be focussed generally no
closer than 250 mm from the eye
(depending upon how old you are!)
• this is considered to be the normal viewing
distance for 1x magnification
• Young people may be able to focus as close
as 125 mm so they can magnify as much as
2x because the image covers a larger part of
the retina
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 13 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification

1000mm

35 mm slide
24x36 mm
1000 mm
M = 36 mm = 28

The projected image is 28 times larger than we would
see it at 250 mm from our eyes.
If we used a 10x magnifier we would have a magnification
of 280x, but we would reduce the field of view by the same
factor of 10x.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 14 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Basic Microscopy
• Bright field illumination does not reveal
differences in brightness between structural
details - i.e. no contrast
• Structural details emerge via phase
differences and by staining of components
• The edge effects (diffraction, refraction,
reflection) produce contrast and detail
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 15 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Definitions
• Absorption
– When light passes through an object the intensity is reduced depending
upon the color absorbed. Thus the selective absorption of white light
produces colored light.

• Refraction
– Direction change of a ray of light passing from one transparent medium to
another with different optical density. A ray from less to more dense
medium is bent perpendicular to the surface, with greater deviation for
shorter wavelengths

• Diffraction
– Light rays bend around edges - new wavefronts are generated at sharp
edges - the smaller the aperture the lower the definition

• Dispersion
– Separation of light into its constituent wavelengths when entering a
transparent medium - the change of refractive index with wavelength,
such as the spectrum produced by a prism or a rainbow

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 16 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Control

Absorption

No blue/green light
red filter
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 17 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Absorption Chart
Color in white light

Color of light absorbed

red

blue

green

blue
green

red
red

green

yellow

blue

blue

magenta

green

cyan
black

red
red

green

gray

pink

green

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

blue
blue
Slide 18 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction
Short wavelengths are “bent”
more than long wavelengths

dispersion

Light is “bent” and the resultant colors separate (dispersion).
Red is least refracted, violet most refracted.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 19 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction

He sees the
fish here….

But it is really here!!
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 20 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Upright Scope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 21 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Inverted Microscope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 22 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscope Basics
• Originally conformed to the German DIN
standard
• Standard required the following
– real image formed at a tube length of 160mm
– the parfocal distance set to 45 mm
– object to image distance set at 195 mm

• Currently we use the ISO standard
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 23 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

The Conventional Microscope

Mechanical
tube length
= 160 mm

Object to
Image
Distance
= 195 mm

Focal length
of objective
= 45 mm
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 24 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Conventional Finite Optics
with Telan system
Ocular
Intermediate Image
195 mm

160 mm

Telan Optics
Other optics
Objective
45 mm

Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 25 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Infinity Optics
Ocular
Primary Image Plane

Tube Lens
Infinite
Image
Distance

Other optics
Other optics
Objective

The main advantage of infinity
corrected lens systems is the
relative insensitivity to
additional optics within the
tube length. Secondly one can
focus by moving the objective
and not the specimen (stage)
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 26 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Summary Lecture 1
• Upright and inverted microscopes
• Köhler illumination
• Refraction, Absorption, dispersion,
diffraction
• Magnification
• Optical Designs - 160 mm and Infinity
optics
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 27 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt


Slide 23

Lecture 1

The Principles of Microscopy
BMS 524 - “Introduction to Confocal Microscopy and Image Analysis”
Purdue University Department of Basic Medical Sciences,
School of Veterinary Medicine

J.Paul Robinson, Ph.D.
Professor of Immunopharmacology
Director, Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories
These slides are intended for use in a lecture series. Copies of the graphics are distributed and
students encouraged to take their notes on these graphics. The intent is to have the student
NOT try to reproduce the figures, but to LISTEN and UNDERSTAND the material. All
material copyright J.Paul Robinson unless stated. Textbook for this lecture series in Jim
Pawley’s “Handbook of Confocal Microscopy” Plenum Press which has been used extensively
for material and ideas to support the class.
Slide 1 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

UPDATED October 27, 1998

Evaluation
• End of term quiz - 100% grade

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 2 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to the Course









Microscopy
Fluorescence
Basic Optics
Confocal Microscopes
Basic Image Analysis
3D image analysis
Live Cell Studies
Advanced Applications

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 3 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to Lecture 1






Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Early Microscope
Modern Microscopes
Magnification
Nature of Light
Optical Designs

Slide 4 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscopes





Upright
Inverted
Köhler Illumination
Fluorescence Illumination

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 5 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Earliest Microscopes
• 1590 - Hans & Zacharias Janssen of Middleburg, Holland
manufactured the first compound microscope
• 1673 Antioni Van Leeuwenhoek created a “simple” microscope that
could magnify to about 275x, and published drawings of
microorganisms in 1683

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 6 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Early Microscopes (Hooke)

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 7 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Secondary Microscopes
• In 1827 Giovanni Battista Amici, built high quality microscopes and
introduced the first matched achromatic microscope in 1827. He
recognized the importance of coveralls thickness and developed the
concept of “water immersion”
• Carl Zeiss and Ernst Abbe developed oil immersion systems by
developing oils that matched the refractive index of glass. Dr Otto
Schott formulated glass lenses that color-corrected objectives and
produced the first “apochromatic” objectives in 1886.

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 8 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Modern Microscopes
• Early 20th Century Professor Köhler
developed the method of illumination still
called “Köhler Illumination”
• Köhler recognized that using shorter
wavelength light (UV) could improve
resolution

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 9 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler
• Köhler illumination creates an evenly
illuminated field of view while illuminating
the specimen with a very wide cone of light
• Two conjugate image planes are formed
– one contains an image of the specimen and the
other the filament from the light

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 10 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler Illumination
condenser

Field iris

Specimen

eyepiece
Field stop
retina

Conjugate planes for image-forming rays

Field iris

Specimen

Field stop

Conjugate planes for illuminating rays

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 11 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Principles
• Rule of thumb is is not to exceed 1,000
times the NA of the objective
• Modern microscopes magnify both in the
objective and the ocular and thus are called
“compound microscopes”

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 12 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification
• An object can be focussed generally no
closer than 250 mm from the eye
(depending upon how old you are!)
• this is considered to be the normal viewing
distance for 1x magnification
• Young people may be able to focus as close
as 125 mm so they can magnify as much as
2x because the image covers a larger part of
the retina
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 13 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification

1000mm

35 mm slide
24x36 mm
1000 mm
M = 36 mm = 28

The projected image is 28 times larger than we would
see it at 250 mm from our eyes.
If we used a 10x magnifier we would have a magnification
of 280x, but we would reduce the field of view by the same
factor of 10x.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 14 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Basic Microscopy
• Bright field illumination does not reveal
differences in brightness between structural
details - i.e. no contrast
• Structural details emerge via phase
differences and by staining of components
• The edge effects (diffraction, refraction,
reflection) produce contrast and detail
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 15 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Definitions
• Absorption
– When light passes through an object the intensity is reduced depending
upon the color absorbed. Thus the selective absorption of white light
produces colored light.

• Refraction
– Direction change of a ray of light passing from one transparent medium to
another with different optical density. A ray from less to more dense
medium is bent perpendicular to the surface, with greater deviation for
shorter wavelengths

• Diffraction
– Light rays bend around edges - new wavefronts are generated at sharp
edges - the smaller the aperture the lower the definition

• Dispersion
– Separation of light into its constituent wavelengths when entering a
transparent medium - the change of refractive index with wavelength,
such as the spectrum produced by a prism or a rainbow

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 16 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Control

Absorption

No blue/green light
red filter
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 17 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Absorption Chart
Color in white light

Color of light absorbed

red

blue

green

blue
green

red
red

green

yellow

blue

blue

magenta

green

cyan
black

red
red

green

gray

pink

green

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

blue
blue
Slide 18 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction
Short wavelengths are “bent”
more than long wavelengths

dispersion

Light is “bent” and the resultant colors separate (dispersion).
Red is least refracted, violet most refracted.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 19 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction

He sees the
fish here….

But it is really here!!
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 20 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Upright Scope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 21 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Inverted Microscope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 22 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscope Basics
• Originally conformed to the German DIN
standard
• Standard required the following
– real image formed at a tube length of 160mm
– the parfocal distance set to 45 mm
– object to image distance set at 195 mm

• Currently we use the ISO standard
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 23 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

The Conventional Microscope

Mechanical
tube length
= 160 mm

Object to
Image
Distance
= 195 mm

Focal length
of objective
= 45 mm
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 24 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Conventional Finite Optics
with Telan system
Ocular
Intermediate Image
195 mm

160 mm

Telan Optics
Other optics
Objective
45 mm

Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 25 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Infinity Optics
Ocular
Primary Image Plane

Tube Lens
Infinite
Image
Distance

Other optics
Other optics
Objective

The main advantage of infinity
corrected lens systems is the
relative insensitivity to
additional optics within the
tube length. Secondly one can
focus by moving the objective
and not the specimen (stage)
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 26 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Summary Lecture 1
• Upright and inverted microscopes
• Köhler illumination
• Refraction, Absorption, dispersion,
diffraction
• Magnification
• Optical Designs - 160 mm and Infinity
optics
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 27 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt


Slide 24

Lecture 1

The Principles of Microscopy
BMS 524 - “Introduction to Confocal Microscopy and Image Analysis”
Purdue University Department of Basic Medical Sciences,
School of Veterinary Medicine

J.Paul Robinson, Ph.D.
Professor of Immunopharmacology
Director, Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories
These slides are intended for use in a lecture series. Copies of the graphics are distributed and
students encouraged to take their notes on these graphics. The intent is to have the student
NOT try to reproduce the figures, but to LISTEN and UNDERSTAND the material. All
material copyright J.Paul Robinson unless stated. Textbook for this lecture series in Jim
Pawley’s “Handbook of Confocal Microscopy” Plenum Press which has been used extensively
for material and ideas to support the class.
Slide 1 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

UPDATED October 27, 1998

Evaluation
• End of term quiz - 100% grade

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 2 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to the Course









Microscopy
Fluorescence
Basic Optics
Confocal Microscopes
Basic Image Analysis
3D image analysis
Live Cell Studies
Advanced Applications

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 3 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to Lecture 1






Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Early Microscope
Modern Microscopes
Magnification
Nature of Light
Optical Designs

Slide 4 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscopes





Upright
Inverted
Köhler Illumination
Fluorescence Illumination

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 5 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Earliest Microscopes
• 1590 - Hans & Zacharias Janssen of Middleburg, Holland
manufactured the first compound microscope
• 1673 Antioni Van Leeuwenhoek created a “simple” microscope that
could magnify to about 275x, and published drawings of
microorganisms in 1683

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 6 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Early Microscopes (Hooke)

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 7 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Secondary Microscopes
• In 1827 Giovanni Battista Amici, built high quality microscopes and
introduced the first matched achromatic microscope in 1827. He
recognized the importance of coveralls thickness and developed the
concept of “water immersion”
• Carl Zeiss and Ernst Abbe developed oil immersion systems by
developing oils that matched the refractive index of glass. Dr Otto
Schott formulated glass lenses that color-corrected objectives and
produced the first “apochromatic” objectives in 1886.

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 8 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Modern Microscopes
• Early 20th Century Professor Köhler
developed the method of illumination still
called “Köhler Illumination”
• Köhler recognized that using shorter
wavelength light (UV) could improve
resolution

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 9 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler
• Köhler illumination creates an evenly
illuminated field of view while illuminating
the specimen with a very wide cone of light
• Two conjugate image planes are formed
– one contains an image of the specimen and the
other the filament from the light

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 10 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler Illumination
condenser

Field iris

Specimen

eyepiece
Field stop
retina

Conjugate planes for image-forming rays

Field iris

Specimen

Field stop

Conjugate planes for illuminating rays

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 11 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Principles
• Rule of thumb is is not to exceed 1,000
times the NA of the objective
• Modern microscopes magnify both in the
objective and the ocular and thus are called
“compound microscopes”

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 12 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification
• An object can be focussed generally no
closer than 250 mm from the eye
(depending upon how old you are!)
• this is considered to be the normal viewing
distance for 1x magnification
• Young people may be able to focus as close
as 125 mm so they can magnify as much as
2x because the image covers a larger part of
the retina
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 13 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification

1000mm

35 mm slide
24x36 mm
1000 mm
M = 36 mm = 28

The projected image is 28 times larger than we would
see it at 250 mm from our eyes.
If we used a 10x magnifier we would have a magnification
of 280x, but we would reduce the field of view by the same
factor of 10x.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 14 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Basic Microscopy
• Bright field illumination does not reveal
differences in brightness between structural
details - i.e. no contrast
• Structural details emerge via phase
differences and by staining of components
• The edge effects (diffraction, refraction,
reflection) produce contrast and detail
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 15 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Definitions
• Absorption
– When light passes through an object the intensity is reduced depending
upon the color absorbed. Thus the selective absorption of white light
produces colored light.

• Refraction
– Direction change of a ray of light passing from one transparent medium to
another with different optical density. A ray from less to more dense
medium is bent perpendicular to the surface, with greater deviation for
shorter wavelengths

• Diffraction
– Light rays bend around edges - new wavefronts are generated at sharp
edges - the smaller the aperture the lower the definition

• Dispersion
– Separation of light into its constituent wavelengths when entering a
transparent medium - the change of refractive index with wavelength,
such as the spectrum produced by a prism or a rainbow

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 16 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Control

Absorption

No blue/green light
red filter
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 17 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Absorption Chart
Color in white light

Color of light absorbed

red

blue

green

blue
green

red
red

green

yellow

blue

blue

magenta

green

cyan
black

red
red

green

gray

pink

green

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

blue
blue
Slide 18 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction
Short wavelengths are “bent”
more than long wavelengths

dispersion

Light is “bent” and the resultant colors separate (dispersion).
Red is least refracted, violet most refracted.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 19 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction

He sees the
fish here….

But it is really here!!
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 20 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Upright Scope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 21 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Inverted Microscope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 22 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscope Basics
• Originally conformed to the German DIN
standard
• Standard required the following
– real image formed at a tube length of 160mm
– the parfocal distance set to 45 mm
– object to image distance set at 195 mm

• Currently we use the ISO standard
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 23 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

The Conventional Microscope

Mechanical
tube length
= 160 mm

Object to
Image
Distance
= 195 mm

Focal length
of objective
= 45 mm
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 24 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Conventional Finite Optics
with Telan system
Ocular
Intermediate Image
195 mm

160 mm

Telan Optics
Other optics
Objective
45 mm

Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 25 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Infinity Optics
Ocular
Primary Image Plane

Tube Lens
Infinite
Image
Distance

Other optics
Other optics
Objective

The main advantage of infinity
corrected lens systems is the
relative insensitivity to
additional optics within the
tube length. Secondly one can
focus by moving the objective
and not the specimen (stage)
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 26 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Summary Lecture 1
• Upright and inverted microscopes
• Köhler illumination
• Refraction, Absorption, dispersion,
diffraction
• Magnification
• Optical Designs - 160 mm and Infinity
optics
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 27 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt


Slide 25

Lecture 1

The Principles of Microscopy
BMS 524 - “Introduction to Confocal Microscopy and Image Analysis”
Purdue University Department of Basic Medical Sciences,
School of Veterinary Medicine

J.Paul Robinson, Ph.D.
Professor of Immunopharmacology
Director, Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories
These slides are intended for use in a lecture series. Copies of the graphics are distributed and
students encouraged to take their notes on these graphics. The intent is to have the student
NOT try to reproduce the figures, but to LISTEN and UNDERSTAND the material. All
material copyright J.Paul Robinson unless stated. Textbook for this lecture series in Jim
Pawley’s “Handbook of Confocal Microscopy” Plenum Press which has been used extensively
for material and ideas to support the class.
Slide 1 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

UPDATED October 27, 1998

Evaluation
• End of term quiz - 100% grade

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 2 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to the Course









Microscopy
Fluorescence
Basic Optics
Confocal Microscopes
Basic Image Analysis
3D image analysis
Live Cell Studies
Advanced Applications

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 3 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to Lecture 1






Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Early Microscope
Modern Microscopes
Magnification
Nature of Light
Optical Designs

Slide 4 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscopes





Upright
Inverted
Köhler Illumination
Fluorescence Illumination

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 5 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Earliest Microscopes
• 1590 - Hans & Zacharias Janssen of Middleburg, Holland
manufactured the first compound microscope
• 1673 Antioni Van Leeuwenhoek created a “simple” microscope that
could magnify to about 275x, and published drawings of
microorganisms in 1683

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 6 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Early Microscopes (Hooke)

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 7 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Secondary Microscopes
• In 1827 Giovanni Battista Amici, built high quality microscopes and
introduced the first matched achromatic microscope in 1827. He
recognized the importance of coveralls thickness and developed the
concept of “water immersion”
• Carl Zeiss and Ernst Abbe developed oil immersion systems by
developing oils that matched the refractive index of glass. Dr Otto
Schott formulated glass lenses that color-corrected objectives and
produced the first “apochromatic” objectives in 1886.

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 8 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Modern Microscopes
• Early 20th Century Professor Köhler
developed the method of illumination still
called “Köhler Illumination”
• Köhler recognized that using shorter
wavelength light (UV) could improve
resolution

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 9 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler
• Köhler illumination creates an evenly
illuminated field of view while illuminating
the specimen with a very wide cone of light
• Two conjugate image planes are formed
– one contains an image of the specimen and the
other the filament from the light

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 10 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler Illumination
condenser

Field iris

Specimen

eyepiece
Field stop
retina

Conjugate planes for image-forming rays

Field iris

Specimen

Field stop

Conjugate planes for illuminating rays

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 11 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Principles
• Rule of thumb is is not to exceed 1,000
times the NA of the objective
• Modern microscopes magnify both in the
objective and the ocular and thus are called
“compound microscopes”

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 12 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification
• An object can be focussed generally no
closer than 250 mm from the eye
(depending upon how old you are!)
• this is considered to be the normal viewing
distance for 1x magnification
• Young people may be able to focus as close
as 125 mm so they can magnify as much as
2x because the image covers a larger part of
the retina
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 13 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification

1000mm

35 mm slide
24x36 mm
1000 mm
M = 36 mm = 28

The projected image is 28 times larger than we would
see it at 250 mm from our eyes.
If we used a 10x magnifier we would have a magnification
of 280x, but we would reduce the field of view by the same
factor of 10x.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 14 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Basic Microscopy
• Bright field illumination does not reveal
differences in brightness between structural
details - i.e. no contrast
• Structural details emerge via phase
differences and by staining of components
• The edge effects (diffraction, refraction,
reflection) produce contrast and detail
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 15 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Definitions
• Absorption
– When light passes through an object the intensity is reduced depending
upon the color absorbed. Thus the selective absorption of white light
produces colored light.

• Refraction
– Direction change of a ray of light passing from one transparent medium to
another with different optical density. A ray from less to more dense
medium is bent perpendicular to the surface, with greater deviation for
shorter wavelengths

• Diffraction
– Light rays bend around edges - new wavefronts are generated at sharp
edges - the smaller the aperture the lower the definition

• Dispersion
– Separation of light into its constituent wavelengths when entering a
transparent medium - the change of refractive index with wavelength,
such as the spectrum produced by a prism or a rainbow

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 16 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Control

Absorption

No blue/green light
red filter
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 17 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Absorption Chart
Color in white light

Color of light absorbed

red

blue

green

blue
green

red
red

green

yellow

blue

blue

magenta

green

cyan
black

red
red

green

gray

pink

green

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

blue
blue
Slide 18 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction
Short wavelengths are “bent”
more than long wavelengths

dispersion

Light is “bent” and the resultant colors separate (dispersion).
Red is least refracted, violet most refracted.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 19 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Refraction

He sees the
fish here….

But it is really here!!
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 20 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Upright Scope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 21 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Inverted Microscope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 22 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscope Basics
• Originally conformed to the German DIN
standard
• Standard required the following
– real image formed at a tube length of 160mm
– the parfocal distance set to 45 mm
– object to image distance set at 195 mm

• Currently we use the ISO standard
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 23 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

The Conventional Microscope

Mechanical
tube length
= 160 mm

Object to
Image
Distance
= 195 mm

Focal length
of objective
= 45 mm
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 24 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Conventional Finite Optics
with Telan system
Ocular
Intermediate Image
195 mm

160 mm

Telan Optics
Other optics
Objective
45 mm

Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 25 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Infinity Optics
Ocular
Primary Image Plane

Tube Lens
Infinite
Image
Distance

Other optics
Other optics
Objective

The main advantage of infinity
corrected lens systems is the
relative insensitivity to
additional optics within the
tube length. Secondly one can
focus by moving the objective
and not the specimen (stage)
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 26 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Summary Lecture 1
• Upright and inverted microscopes
• Köhler illumination
• Refraction, Absorption, dispersion,
diffraction
• Magnification
• Optical Designs - 160 mm and Infinity
optics
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 27 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt


Slide 26

Lecture 1

The Principles of Microscopy
BMS 524 - “Introduction to Confocal Microscopy and Image Analysis”
Purdue University Department of Basic Medical Sciences,
School of Veterinary Medicine

J.Paul Robinson, Ph.D.
Professor of Immunopharmacology
Director, Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories
These slides are intended for use in a lecture series. Copies of the graphics are distributed and
students encouraged to take their notes on these graphics. The intent is to have the student
NOT try to reproduce the figures, but to LISTEN and UNDERSTAND the material. All
material copyright J.Paul Robinson unless stated. Textbook for this lecture series in Jim
Pawley’s “Handbook of Confocal Microscopy” Plenum Press which has been used extensively
for material and ideas to support the class.
Slide 1 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

UPDATED October 27, 1998

Evaluation
• End of term quiz - 100% grade

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 2 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to the Course









Microscopy
Fluorescence
Basic Optics
Confocal Microscopes
Basic Image Analysis
3D image analysis
Live Cell Studies
Advanced Applications

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 3 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Introduction to Lecture 1






Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Early Microscope
Modern Microscopes
Magnification
Nature of Light
Optical Designs

Slide 4 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscopes





Upright
Inverted
Köhler Illumination
Fluorescence Illumination

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 5 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Earliest Microscopes
• 1590 - Hans & Zacharias Janssen of Middleburg, Holland
manufactured the first compound microscope
• 1673 Antioni Van Leeuwenhoek created a “simple” microscope that
could magnify to about 275x, and published drawings of
microorganisms in 1683

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 6 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Early Microscopes (Hooke)

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 7 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Secondary Microscopes
• In 1827 Giovanni Battista Amici, built high quality microscopes and
introduced the first matched achromatic microscope in 1827. He
recognized the importance of coveralls thickness and developed the
concept of “water immersion”
• Carl Zeiss and Ernst Abbe developed oil immersion systems by
developing oils that matched the refractive index of glass. Dr Otto
Schott formulated glass lenses that color-corrected objectives and
produced the first “apochromatic” objectives in 1886.

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 8 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Modern Microscopes
• Early 20th Century Professor Köhler
developed the method of illumination still
called “Köhler Illumination”
• Köhler recognized that using shorter
wavelength light (UV) could improve
resolution

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 9 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler
• Köhler illumination creates an evenly
illuminated field of view while illuminating
the specimen with a very wide cone of light
• Two conjugate image planes are formed
– one contains an image of the specimen and the
other the filament from the light

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 10 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Köhler Illumination
condenser

Field iris

Specimen

eyepiece
Field stop
retina

Conjugate planes for image-forming rays

Field iris

Specimen

Field stop

Conjugate planes for illuminating rays

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Some Principles
• Rule of thumb is is not to exceed 1,000
times the NA of the objective
• Modern microscopes magnify both in the
objective and the ocular and thus are called
“compound microscopes”

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Magnification
• An object can be focussed generally no
closer than 250 mm from the eye
(depending upon how old you are!)
• this is considered to be the normal viewing
distance for 1x magnification
• Young people may be able to focus as close
as 125 mm so they can magnify as much as
2x because the image covers a larger part of
the retina
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

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Magnification

1000mm

35 mm slide
24x36 mm
1000 mm
M = 36 mm = 28

The projected image is 28 times larger than we would
see it at 250 mm from our eyes.
If we used a 10x magnifier we would have a magnification
of 280x, but we would reduce the field of view by the same
factor of 10x.
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Basic Microscopy
• Bright field illumination does not reveal
differences in brightness between structural
details - i.e. no contrast
• Structural details emerge via phase
differences and by staining of components
• The edge effects (diffraction, refraction,
reflection) produce contrast and detail
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Some Definitions
• Absorption
– When light passes through an object the intensity is reduced depending
upon the color absorbed. Thus the selective absorption of white light
produces colored light.

• Refraction
– Direction change of a ray of light passing from one transparent medium to
another with different optical density. A ray from less to more dense
medium is bent perpendicular to the surface, with greater deviation for
shorter wavelengths

• Diffraction
– Light rays bend around edges - new wavefronts are generated at sharp
edges - the smaller the aperture the lower the definition

• Dispersion
– Separation of light into its constituent wavelengths when entering a
transparent medium - the change of refractive index with wavelength,
such as the spectrum produced by a prism or a rainbow

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

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Control

Absorption

No blue/green light
red filter
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Absorption Chart
Color in white light

Color of light absorbed

red

blue

green

blue
green

red
red

green

yellow

blue

blue

magenta

green

cyan
black

red
red

green

gray

pink

green

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blue
blue
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Refraction
Short wavelengths are “bent”
more than long wavelengths

dispersion

Light is “bent” and the resultant colors separate (dispersion).
Red is least refracted, violet most refracted.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

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Refraction

He sees the
fish here….

But it is really here!!
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Upright Scope

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Inverted Microscope

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Microscope Basics
• Originally conformed to the German DIN
standard
• Standard required the following
– real image formed at a tube length of 160mm
– the parfocal distance set to 45 mm
– object to image distance set at 195 mm

• Currently we use the ISO standard
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The Conventional Microscope

Mechanical
tube length
= 160 mm

Object to
Image
Distance
= 195 mm

Focal length
of objective
= 45 mm
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

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Conventional Finite Optics
with Telan system
Ocular
Intermediate Image
195 mm

160 mm

Telan Optics
Other optics
Objective
45 mm

Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

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Infinity Optics
Ocular
Primary Image Plane

Tube Lens
Infinite
Image
Distance

Other optics
Other optics
Objective

The main advantage of infinity
corrected lens systems is the
relative insensitivity to
additional optics within the
tube length. Secondly one can
focus by moving the objective
and not the specimen (stage)
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

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Summary Lecture 1
• Upright and inverted microscopes
• Köhler illumination
• Refraction, Absorption, dispersion,
diffraction
• Magnification
• Optical Designs - 160 mm and Infinity
optics
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Lecture 1

The Principles of Microscopy
BMS 524 - “Introduction to Confocal Microscopy and Image Analysis”
Purdue University Department of Basic Medical Sciences,
School of Veterinary Medicine

J.Paul Robinson, Ph.D.
Professor of Immunopharmacology
Director, Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories
These slides are intended for use in a lecture series. Copies of the graphics are distributed and
students encouraged to take their notes on these graphics. The intent is to have the student
NOT try to reproduce the figures, but to LISTEN and UNDERSTAND the material. All
material copyright J.Paul Robinson unless stated. Textbook for this lecture series in Jim
Pawley’s “Handbook of Confocal Microscopy” Plenum Press which has been used extensively
for material and ideas to support the class.
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UPDATED October 27, 1998

Evaluation
• End of term quiz - 100% grade

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Introduction to the Course









Microscopy
Fluorescence
Basic Optics
Confocal Microscopes
Basic Image Analysis
3D image analysis
Live Cell Studies
Advanced Applications

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Introduction to Lecture 1






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Early Microscope
Modern Microscopes
Magnification
Nature of Light
Optical Designs

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Microscopes





Upright
Inverted
Köhler Illumination
Fluorescence Illumination

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Earliest Microscopes
• 1590 - Hans & Zacharias Janssen of Middleburg, Holland
manufactured the first compound microscope
• 1673 Antioni Van Leeuwenhoek created a “simple” microscope that
could magnify to about 275x, and published drawings of
microorganisms in 1683

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Early Microscopes (Hooke)

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Secondary Microscopes
• In 1827 Giovanni Battista Amici, built high quality microscopes and
introduced the first matched achromatic microscope in 1827. He
recognized the importance of coveralls thickness and developed the
concept of “water immersion”
• Carl Zeiss and Ernst Abbe developed oil immersion systems by
developing oils that matched the refractive index of glass. Dr Otto
Schott formulated glass lenses that color-corrected objectives and
produced the first “apochromatic” objectives in 1886.

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Modern Microscopes
• Early 20th Century Professor Köhler
developed the method of illumination still
called “Köhler Illumination”
• Köhler recognized that using shorter
wavelength light (UV) could improve
resolution

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Köhler
• Köhler illumination creates an evenly
illuminated field of view while illuminating
the specimen with a very wide cone of light
• Two conjugate image planes are formed
– one contains an image of the specimen and the
other the filament from the light

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Köhler Illumination
condenser

Field iris

Specimen

eyepiece
Field stop
retina

Conjugate planes for image-forming rays

Field iris

Specimen

Field stop

Conjugate planes for illuminating rays

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 11 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Principles
• Rule of thumb is is not to exceed 1,000
times the NA of the objective
• Modern microscopes magnify both in the
objective and the ocular and thus are called
“compound microscopes”

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 12 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification
• An object can be focussed generally no
closer than 250 mm from the eye
(depending upon how old you are!)
• this is considered to be the normal viewing
distance for 1x magnification
• Young people may be able to focus as close
as 125 mm so they can magnify as much as
2x because the image covers a larger part of
the retina
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 13 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Magnification

1000mm

35 mm slide
24x36 mm
1000 mm
M = 36 mm = 28

The projected image is 28 times larger than we would
see it at 250 mm from our eyes.
If we used a 10x magnifier we would have a magnification
of 280x, but we would reduce the field of view by the same
factor of 10x.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 14 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Basic Microscopy
• Bright field illumination does not reveal
differences in brightness between structural
details - i.e. no contrast
• Structural details emerge via phase
differences and by staining of components
• The edge effects (diffraction, refraction,
reflection) produce contrast and detail
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 15 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Some Definitions
• Absorption
– When light passes through an object the intensity is reduced depending
upon the color absorbed. Thus the selective absorption of white light
produces colored light.

• Refraction
– Direction change of a ray of light passing from one transparent medium to
another with different optical density. A ray from less to more dense
medium is bent perpendicular to the surface, with greater deviation for
shorter wavelengths

• Diffraction
– Light rays bend around edges - new wavefronts are generated at sharp
edges - the smaller the aperture the lower the definition

• Dispersion
– Separation of light into its constituent wavelengths when entering a
transparent medium - the change of refractive index with wavelength,
such as the spectrum produced by a prism or a rainbow

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

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Control

Absorption

No blue/green light
red filter
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 17 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Absorption Chart
Color in white light

Color of light absorbed

red

blue

green

blue
green

red
red

green

yellow

blue

blue

magenta

green

cyan
black

red
red

green

gray

pink

green

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

blue
blue
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Refraction
Short wavelengths are “bent”
more than long wavelengths

dispersion

Light is “bent” and the resultant colors separate (dispersion).
Red is least refracted, violet most refracted.
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

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Refraction

He sees the
fish here….

But it is really here!!
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 20 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Upright Scope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 21 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Inverted Microscope

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 22 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Microscope Basics
• Originally conformed to the German DIN
standard
• Standard required the following
– real image formed at a tube length of 160mm
– the parfocal distance set to 45 mm
– object to image distance set at 195 mm

• Currently we use the ISO standard
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 23 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

The Conventional Microscope

Mechanical
tube length
= 160 mm

Object to
Image
Distance
= 195 mm

Focal length
of objective
= 45 mm
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 24 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Conventional Finite Optics
with Telan system
Ocular
Intermediate Image
195 mm

160 mm

Telan Optics
Other optics
Objective
45 mm

Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 25 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Infinity Optics
Ocular
Primary Image Plane

Tube Lens
Infinite
Image
Distance

Other optics
Other optics
Objective

The main advantage of infinity
corrected lens systems is the
relative insensitivity to
additional optics within the
tube length. Secondly one can
focus by moving the objective
and not the specimen (stage)
Modified from “Pawley “Handbook of
Confocal Microscopy”, Plenum Press

Sample being imaged
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

Slide 26 t:/PowerPoint/confoc/lect1nu.ppt

Summary Lecture 1
• Upright and inverted microscopes
• Köhler illumination
• Refraction, Absorption, dispersion,
diffraction
• Magnification
• Optical Designs - 160 mm and Infinity
optics
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

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