88000 Series - Quad Filter Set with Single Band Exciters
Originally designed for Comparative Genomic Hybridization the filter sets in this series, like those in the 51 and 61 series have become important in a wide variety of applications. The factors common to each of the 80 series filter sets is the use of a multiband beamsplitter and emission filter combination which remain stable in the body of the fluorescence microscope. The use of a stable beamsplitter and emission filter guarantees registration of the various images. The single, and sometimes multi-band excitation filters are mounted in a filter wheel or a filter slider. By changing excitation filters one seeks to excite each fluorochrome in succession, capturing a single image and combining those images with the help of imaging software. There can be some bleeding of one fluorochrome into the image of a shorter wavelength fluorochrome. This is sometimes inevitable, as is the case with Propidium Iodide and FITC.
**Prices are for unmounted filter sets. For the appropriate filter cubes/holders, please see our 91000 Series or contact us.**