Postgraduate Course: Imaging: Light microscopy (NEME11024)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh Medical School |
College | College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This optional course will cover basics of light and fluorescence microscopy, as well as advanced techniques, confocal microscopy, CCD camera technology, and re-enforce taught materials with practical activities. Note that some components of light microscopy will be covered in other courses where these components have broader imaging relevance. |
| Course description |
Modules cover but are not limited to:
+ General introduction to the CMVM imaging facilities and available instrumentation
+ Basics of light and fluorescence microscopy
+ Confocal microscopy
+ CCD camera technology
+ Advanced light micorscopy techniques
+ Microscopy relevant sample management, live cell maintenance, image acquisition / formation / sampling / deconvolution
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
| See course description
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Reading List
| A list of required and recommended readings will be provided through the institutional online learning environment |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Special Arrangements |
All courses are delivered online by distance learning, using the institutional learning environment and other online tools (e.g. wiki, objective testing software), accessed by using the standard university EASE login. |
| Keywords | Light / Fluorescence / Widefield / Confocal Microscopy,Illumination,Fluorophores,Lasers,CCD Came |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Andrew Farrall
Tel: (0131) 537 3910
Email: andrew.farrall@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Dr Charilaos Alexakis
Tel: 0131 537 3125
Email: C.Alexakis@ed.ac.uk |
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