Olympus BX51 Upright Research Microscope

Olympus BX51 upright research microscope is a high quality research intravital microscope that is capable of bright-field, dark-field, fluorescence, phase contrast and differential interference contrast viewing of samples. It enables the viewing of the red blood cell movement within microcircularoy vessels for both transillumination and epi-illumination studies.

Fastcam-1024PCI Camera

High speed video camera Fastcam-1024PCI, Photron is capable of recording up to 109,500 frames per second and storing up to  5,013504 frames in internal memory. High-speed frame rates are capable of maintaining the spatial resolution of the cell-free layer thickness measurement below 2 µm.

Biopac MP 100 system

The MP100 data acquisition system is a powerful interface system that can be used with DA100C general amplifier and pressure sensor TSD104 to give a precise measurement of blood pressure ranging from -50 mmHg to +300 mmHg. The system includes acqknowledge software which is capable of performing real-time data acquisition, triggering and analyses.

Brookfield Viscometer

Brookfield LVDV-II +PCP cone and plate digital  viscometer  is capable of measuring the blood viscosity with a wide range of shear rates. Only 0.5 ml of the blood sample is required for each test and the measurement accuracy is within the ±1% viscosity range.

Myrenne aggregometer

The Myrenne aggregometer is to measure the degree of red blood cell aggregation based on photometric aggregometry. The blood sample  is placed in the gap between transparent glass plate and a transparent cone and subjected to a high shear rate (500-600 s^-1) over a 5 or 10 s period to disperse pre-existing aggregates following which the cone is stopped or slowed to a shear rate of 3 s^-1. The integrated value of light transmission through the blood suspension over the 5 or 10 s indicates the index of the red blood cell aggregation.

Microcentrifuge

Microhematocrit centrifuge (Sigma 1-14) is used to determine the hematocrit in a blood sample. It can provide up to 14,800 rpm for separating the red blood cells and the plasma distinctly. It has both the softstart and softstop capability to start and end the centrifugation smoothly respectively.