Synchronize to the Laser

Scanbox makes sure the data acquisition of the signals from the photo-multipliers are synchronized to the laser pulse.  Let me explain why.  Suppose you run an asynchronous data acquisition clock at 25Mhz while the laser has a pulse rate of 80Mhz.  Then you may obtain images of single cells that look like this: This is…

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A Quick Look at Scanbox’s GUI

In case you were wondering, this is how things look for now in the first release of Scanbox 1.0. Click on the figure to get a larger picture.  Here is a brief description of the panels. Chameleon: it allow you to change the laser wavelength, power and read out the laser status. Scanner: Defines scanning parameters including the…

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