The Pathology Imaging Core Laboratory is located on the 2nd floor of the Keiller Building, Room 2.142.

The Pathology Imaging Core Lab Director is Gustavo Valbuena, M.D., Ph.D.

This is a BSL-1 facility equipped with three modern Olympus microscopes:

• Olympus Is71 Manual Inverted Microscope

• Olympus BX61 Fully Motorized Fluorescence Microscope
(http://www.olympusamerica.com/seg_section/product.asp?product=1028)

• Olympus DSU-IX81 Spinning Disk Confocal Microscope
(http://www.olympusamerica.com/seg_section/product.asp?product=1009)

Access Procedure

1. View the Training Video(s) for the correct operation of each microscope you are interested in using.
2. Read the required documents and, if possible, the suggested readings found near the end of this page.
3. Complete the appropriate online user agreements below for each microscope you will use and submit form by email to Dr. Gustavo Valbuena (gvalbuen@utmb.edu).
4. Schedule a first visit to the Imaging Facility with Dr. Valbuena in order to assign a user and password for each computer controlling the respective microscopes.
5. Dr. Valbuena will request your card-coded access to the facility and share the Outlook Calendar for scheduling microscope use time.

Please select from the Pathology Microscope Imaging Laboratory PDF documents listed below.

Olympus IX71 Manual Inverted Fluorescence Microscope This is the User Agreement for the Olympus IX71 Manual Inverted Fluorescence Microscope. The form is an interactive PDF document which may be completed and submitted online. Once completed, forward the agreement by clicking the "Submit by Email" button.

Olympus BX61 Fully Motorized Upright Fluorescence Microscope This is the User Agreement for the Olympus BX61 Fully Motorized Fluorescence Microscope. The form is an interactive PDF document which may be completed and submitted online. Once completed, forward the agreement by clicking the "Submit by Email" button.

Olympus DSU-IX81 Spinning Disk Confocal Microscope This is the User Agreement for the Olympus DSU-IX81 Spinning Disk Confocal Microscope. The form is an interactive PDF document which may be completed and submitted online. Once completed, forward the agreement by clicking the "Submit by Email" button.

Training Videos

The Department of Pathology assumes responsibility for assuring that all pathologists, scientists and other personnel who utilize the Pathology Imaging Core facilities are provided with appropriate training and/or instruction. As such, a set of Training Videos has been developed to serve as part of the fundamental instruction for the lab. All new users for the Imaging Core must review the video set below before being granted a user account for the equipment.

Olympus BX61 Fully Motorized Upright Fluorescence Microscope

How to start the microscope  How to use manual controls How to take a DIC image  How to use fluorescence How to export images to 8 bit TIFF How to clean the objectives