Benchtop Confocal Microscope – BC43 CF
Andor's Benchtop Confocal delivers amazing images at the push of a button. This plug and play confocal system has been designed with cost, performance and accessibility in mind, ensuring hassle-free, high-quality 2D & 3D imaging for busy researchers.
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Ideal instrument for routine high quality imaging
Microscopy
We evaluated the BC43 as a replacement for a traditional point scanning confocal microscope. The ease of use of the BC43 make this is an ideal instrument for high quality images for our user base, who have varied expertise using microscopes in their research.
Review Date: 28 Mar 2022 | Oxford Instruments Andor
It's a very good instrument and I am glad we decided to get it.
Confocal imaging
The benchtop microscope is so quick and easy to use, the learning process is straight forward and the images look nice.
Review Date: 28 Mar 2022 | Oxford Instruments Andor
Best confocal images so far!
Imaging
Super simple to use without much imaging experience. Never any problems so far.
Review Date: 24 Mar 2022 | Oxford Instruments Andor
Beautiful images abound!
Microscopy
We switched to the BC43 after years of using an inverted microscope with spinning disk confocal. The BC43 offers the ease of use that one would expect out of a core instrument with the light throughput of our outgoing microscope. The Andor team has been highly responsive with all queries we have asked, and the price was hard to beat.
Review Date: 22 Mar 2022 | Oxford Instruments Andor
Great results!
Korea
Service is good. It is useful to use bc43. It is easy to handle
Review Date: 15 Mar 2022 | Oxford Instruments Andor
Good imaging and reasonable price
Korea
Product service is good. It is easy to use BC43. The image quality is good as well as reasonable price.
Review Date: 15 Mar 2022 | Oxford Instruments Andor
I recommend BC 43 to all biologists who need great high resolution confocal images.
Fluorescence microscopy
BC 43 is a revolutionary spinning disk confocal built in a portable box. It can be placed anywhere it’s needed because it doesn’t require a dark room or an anti-vibrational table. The confocal mode gives great quality images and is very fast as it’s a spinning disk. Thanks to the dedicated software you can as well stitch your tiles or deconvolve. It’s probably the easiest confocal I have used.
Review Date: 12 Mar 2022 | Oxford Instruments Andor
Great microscope to multitask imaging and other bench experiments.
Life sciences/imaging/microscopy
BC43 benchtop confocal gives great images with a minimal learning curve for users. People without previous microscopy experience can easily use the confocal system and take great images from first usage, because both the hardware and the software are simple to use. It's really small and compact and can be used in a lab bench, without the requirement of dark rooms or other facilities, making it a great fit for every wet lab. The price is in the range of a widefield microscope but this system allows for both widefield and confocal microscopy. Overall, very versatile without compromising on imaging quality.
Review Date: 24 Jan 2022 | Oxford Instruments Andor
Fast and easy confocal microscopy in any lab
BC43 is a super-compact unit that is rich in features and benefits, making it the ideal microscope for early-stage researchers and experienced microscopists alike. With no requirement for a darkroom, researchers can access confocal technology on the same bench as their samples. This, coupled with the fast-learning curve, allows individual users and entire labs to become much more productive, without compromising results.
Key features:
- Benchtop multimodal imaging system
- Instant confocal: Blur-free imaging
- Widefield imaging
- Differential phase contrast & brightfield
- Borealis uniform illumination
- GPU-powered deconvolution
Key applications: Cell biology, developmental biology, neuroscience, cancer biology, tissue imaging, organoids & large organisms
Confocal, widefield & transmitted light microscopy all-in-one
Confocal microscopy
Capture superb confocal images at least 10 times faster than point scanner-based systems with the Andor Benchtop Confocal!
BC43 is a prime solution for 3D imaging of thick samples. A high sensitivity, high-speed imaging camera makes it perfect for live-cell confocal imaging.
A motorized XY stage allows multiple point acquisition, large organism montages, and multipoint scanning resulting in outstanding productivity from a single imaging experiment.
Widefield fluorescence microscopy
- Offers the gentlest illumination mode for samples that are super-sensitive to light.
- Detects lower sample signals than in confocal mode.
- Offers the fastest imaging speeds to capture dynamic processes in live cells.
Use ClearView™ GPU to remove sample blur and enhance resolution, ensuring the best quality images.
Transmitted light microscopy
BC43 also delivers two different transmitted light options for amazing imaging flexibility:
- Use Brightfield Mode to visualise the development of larger organisms whose structures naturally deliver high contrast images
- For thinner samples and/or those with higher transparency, use Differential Phase Contrast (DPC) mode to draw out their structure
You can also mix and match modes like DPC and Widefield for even more imaging flexibility!
