New Microscope System Leica DM4000 B LED for Biomedical Research

Superior Image Quality with LED Illumination and Intelligent Automation

Wetzlar, Germany, May 22, 2012.
With the new Leica DM4000 B LED Leica Microsystems launches a microscope system with innovative LED illumination that is optimally suited for biomedical applications.

The dedicated LED transmitted light illumination solution is integrated in the microscope automation and matched to all microscopy applications. LED illumination provides constant color temperature at all intensity levels and thus enables reliable results. The LED’s high light density and color reproduction provide brilliant images with a clear differentiation of the colors in the sample without heat buildup.

Microscope System Leica DM4000 B LED for Biomedical Research

With at least 50.000 hours lifetime, the LED illumination is very cost effective, as frequent bulb exchanges are no longer necessary.

Advantages for biomedical research

Thanks to intelligent automation, the optimal parameters are automatically set in transmitted light and fluorescence, depending on the selected contrast method. The user’s most recently used values are saved for each objective and contrasting method. The fully automated fluorescence axis with apochromatic fluorescence light path provides brilliant images with stunning contrast. Intelligent automation means: absolute reproducability and excellent image quality.

Ideal for clinical applications

The Leica DM4000 B LED is suited for clinical applications, e.g. pathology applications with commonly used HE stained slides. Its special transmitted light modes may be adjusted according to applications or the user’s preferences.

Integrated system solution

Leica Microsystems offers a complete imaging system from one source: With Leica’s full line of color cameras and cameras for fluorescence applications there is a solution for any requirement between highest resolution and quick live image. The Leica Application Suite fully integrates the Leica DM4000 B LED microscope and digital camera into an optimized system when combined with a PC for the visualization, storage and documentation of microscope images. The Leica AF6000 advanced fluorescence imaging systems are ideal for very fast, multidimensional fluorescence scans and processing, including live cell time-lapse experiments, multi-positioning and deconvolution.

Leica Microsystems is a world leader in microscopes and scientific instruments. Founded as a family business in the nineteenth century, the company’s history was marked by unparalleled innovation on its way to becoming a global enterprise.

Its historically close cooperation with the scientific community is the key to Leica Microsystems’ tradition of innovation, which draws on users’ ideas and creates solutions tailored to their requirements. At the global level, Leica Microsystems is organized in four divisions, all of which are among the leaders in their respective fields: the Life Science Division, Industry Division, Biosystems Division and Medical Division.

Leica Microsystems’ Biosystems Division, also known as Leica Biosystems, offers histopathology laboratories the most extensive product range with appropriate products for each work step in histology and for a high level of productivity in the working processes of the entire laboratory.

The company is represented in over 100 countries with 12 manufacturing facilities in 7 countries, sales and service organizations in 19 countries and an international network of dealers. The company is headquartered in Wetzlar, Germany.

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