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Light Microscopy Systems, Cameras and Image Analysis Software

At Andor, it matters to us that the products we develop make a real difference to our customers and contribute significantly to their research across Immunology, Microbiology, Neuroscience, Cells & Tissues, Pharma and much more. It excites us that our ground-breaking low light imaging microscope cameras, microscopy systems and software are widely used in papers published in high-impact journals like Nature, the Journal of Cell Biology and many more.

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EMCCD, CCD, InGaAs and sCMOS Microscope Cameras

Andor's range of high-performance imaging microscope cameras are suited to a wide variety of microscopy applications, from extremely challenging single molecule tracking to routine wide-field fluorescence microscopy. With an ever-expanding product portfolio, we have your application covered, whether your samples are fixed or living, large or small, static or dynamic.

  • Our market-leading iXon EMCCDs for microscopes are the platform of choice for an array of light starved microscopy applications .
  • sCMOS cameras allow you to radically upgrade the performance of your fluorescence microscope and is also the perfect detector for Light Sheet microscopy
  • Deep-cooled iKon CCD cameras are the best solution available for long exposure luminescence experiments
  • Our C-RED 2 NIR SWIR cameras enable imaging of processes within small animal and in vivo models.
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ZL41 Cell sCMOS & Sona sCMOS

Unrivalled Confocal Microscopy Systems

Dragonfly, our spinning disk confocal microscopy system, provides an unrivalled combination of speed, sensitivity, confocality and resolution. Our BC43 benchtop confocal utilizes imaging technology from our award-winning Dragonfly confocal. BC43 allows for fast and flexible routine 2D/3D imaging from brightfield to confocal at the push of a button.

Applications ranging from single molecule to live cell confocal, TIRFM to whole embryo and thick tissue imaging all benefit from our system’s enhanced features.

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Photostimulation Tools for Microscopy

Our flexible and field-proven photostimulation tools are ideal for use across a range of applications.

  • MicroPoint, supplied with a patented compact, pulsed nitrogen pumped tunable dye laser, it is capable of ablation, bleaching and uncaging over a wavelength range of 365 to 656 nm.
  • Mosaic is the perfect tool for photostimulation applications such as Optogenetics, optophysiology, photobleaching/activation and uncaging. This patented combination of digital mirror device used with a microscope, delivers high speed targeting of complex light patterns to your sample.
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Imaris Microscopy AI Image Analysis Software

Imaris is the world’s leading microscopy AI image analysis software, offering a comprehensive solution for the visualisation, analysis, and interpretation of 2D, 3D, and 4D microscopy images. Trusted by researchers worldwide, Imaris combines intuitive workflows with high-performance rendering and processing to help you achieve your research goals quickly and efficiently.

With stunning visuals and effortless measurement generation, Imaris enhances your microscopy research. Our dedicated application specialists are also available to help you optimise workflows for your specific images and applications.

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Extensive OEM Solutions for Scientific Manufacturers

We offer a comprehensive range of customisable products for OEM and industrial use, enabling customers to integrate into a wide variety of configurations for existing devices and those in development. The experience and expertise of our design, manufacturing, account management teams ensures that you are in safe hands.

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Learning Centre Resources

The Learning Centre hosts a wide range of case studies, technical articles and webinars on various applications and spectroscopy techniques. Here are some key articles for further reading:

Nanocrystal-encoded fluorescent microbeads for autoimmune disease detection
Ultra-sensitive detection/screening of antibodies has been recently demonstrated using an immunodiagnostic technique applied to nanocrystal encoded microbeads. Work reported by ...
Optofluidic Raman Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis and Raman Spectroscopy Bio-Sensor for Tissue Analysis
Abstract Raman spectroscopy is a powerful spectroscopic tool in the field of bio-chemical analysis for chemical fingerprinting. The ability of this technique to achieve multi-c...
Overview of Tissue Clearing Methods and Applications
Tissue clearing is a broad term that defines techniques that have the final goal of reducing the opacity of biological tissues to see features deep within a sample while maintai...
Sensitivity and Noise of CCD, EMCCD and sCMOS Sensors
Sensitivity is a key performance feature of any detection system. When assessing the sensitivity of any sensor it is the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) which is of key importance. ...
Optimizing Field of View and Resolution in Microscopy - Matching sCMOS Camera to Objective Lenses
Introduction Maximizing the on-sample field of view in fluorescence microscopy is of increasing relevance across a wide range of applications, including high content screening ...
Exploring Microscopy Techniques: Confocal, Widefield, Transmitted Light and Deconvolution
Microscopes are an essential tool for modern life science applications. From medical diagnostics (for example, identifying the source of an infection, or the severity of a tumou...
History of sCMOS Cameras
The original CMOS and CCDs were developed in the late '60s to early '70s. At that time CCD technology was dominant for many imaging applications because it had better image inte...
When Bigger Pixels Rule - Pixel Size and Photon Collection Efficiency
One of the trends that can be seen in microscopy in recent years has been the interest in imaging sensors with larger fields of view and smaller pixel sizes to maintain image de...
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