Microscope Resolution2.0.5 - App Store

Characterize your microscope objective lenses, see how well matched they are to your microscope's image acquisition system. The App supports both transmitted light objectives and fluorescence objectives. Input the magnification, immersion medium (air, oil, glycerol or silicone oil), NA (numerical aperture), condenser NA and wavelength of light (lambda), to calculate the lateral resolution, axial resolution and brightness of the objective. Characterize your acquisition system (camera pixel size, camera binning and additional magnification) to check if you're sampling at Nyquist frequency. Each of your objectives can be saved and easily restored, and shared with other microscopists via e-mail, MMS, Linked-In or even Facebook. The equations used for the calculations can be displayed. The sources of equations are referenced in the "Information" section.

* Theoretical Resolution is calculated according Ernst Abbe's famous equation (Abbe 1873)

* Actual Resolution is calculated according to ‘The Rayleigh Criterion’

* Axial Resolution of fluorescence objectives is calculated according to Inoue's chapter in Jim Pawley's “Handbook of Biological Confocal Microscopy” (3rd edition 2006)

* Camera pixel size can be loaded from the list of cameras, if your camera is not in the list, you can enter it manually.

* Select the "share" feature to share all output to e-mail, MMS or Linked-In

* It doesn't matter if your microscope was made by Zeiss, Evos, Leica, Olympus, Nikon, Motic, or Meiji Techno, the principles are identical and you will find the app useful.

* The list of cameras in the Camera dialog includes those made by Andor, Hamamatsu, Photometrics, PCO, QImaging, Leica, Lumenera, Olympus, Nikon, Motic and Zeiss.

Version History A calculation of Depth of Field was added to the fluorescence objective view.
Camera selection was made easier. 2.0.5 08/28/2023 Fixed problems that stopped buttons and links being displayed correctly in Build 2.03. 2.04 11/08/2022 Added new Zeiss microscope cameras, Axiocam 807 mono, 807 color, 820 mono and 820 color. 2.03 11/07/2022 Added a Chinese Translation 2.02 11/14/2021 Added new Motic cameras. Corrected the spelling of 'Optovar'. 2.01 09/18/2021 A new 'Sensor View' has been added that allows you to compare the field of view at your eyepieces with the field of view of the camera.
I've improved the consistency of the use of distance units, so now distances 2.0 08/08/2021 Added the latest cameras from Zeiss. 1.2.12 07/21/2020 App maintenance.
Fixed a bug that prevented transmitted light objectives with no condenser being saved correctly. 1.2.11 08/27/2019 The Lumenera range of cameras was added. 1.2.10 12/05/2018 Added advisory text on additional magnification for Evos FL Auto and FL Auto 2 users. 1.29 09/10/2018 Added new cameras from Photometrics, QImaging, Leica, Hamamatsu and pco. 1.28 04/03/2018 Fixed a problem that made the app crash if you attempted to save images to the photos library when using the share feature. 1.27 03/19/2018 New magnifications have been added.
Equations have been clarified with additional brackets.
A toolbar layout problem was corrected.
Added support for commas as decimal separators. 1.26 02/05/2018 New Color Scheme
Layouts Improved
Hamamatsu Spark added to the list of cameras 1.24 10/16/2017 Manufacturer sub-headings have been added to the camera list.

ThorLabs cameras have been added.

Hamamatsu Lightening was added.

Zeiss 305 was added.

A "Tell A Friend" sharing feature was added.

Links to the Google play store and Apple App store were added to the share feature.

The layout on iPads was improved. 1.2.3 07/13/2017 Fixed a bug that prevented the camera pixel size being restored when changing between objective types. 1.2.2 05/23/2017 Minor bug fixes. 1.2.1 05/08/2017 1.2 05/05/2017