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The Thermo Scientific™ Aquilos™ Cryo-FIB is the first cryo-DualBeam™ (focused ion beam/scanning electron microscope) system dedicated to preparation of frozen, thin lamella samples from biological specimens for high-resolution tomographic imaging in a cryo-transmission electron microscope (cryo-TEM). Cryo-electron tomography's ability to visualize structures in their native context allows researchers to observe functional relationships and interactions with other components in the cellular environment. This technique promises to become an important tool for scientists seeking a better understanding of living systems at the molecular level.
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Produce cryo-lamellas for cryo-tomography using autoloader TEM systems.Cryo-dedicated hardware inside the DualBeam system chamber ensures optimal sample preparation while maintaining cryo conditions. Cryo specimens are mounted in dedicated Cryo-FIB AutoGrids which can be loaded into AutoLoader TEM systems.
Create thinner cryo-lamella without cutting artifacts. Ion beam milling enables creation of compression-free cryo-lamella samples for TEM tomography imaging. This method avoids artifacts such as mechanical compression inevitable for mechanical cryo-sectioning approaches using cryo-ultramicrotomes.
Improve sample preparation precision. Guided user software and Thermo Scientific™ MAPS™ correlation software makes the Aquilos Cryo-FIB easy to use, even for inexperienced users.
Enhanced sample integrityThe ability to properly prepare thin lamellas from vitrified samples, while at the same time, maintaining the necessary temperature, vacuum and transfer conditions, has been a significant challenge for researchers. To remove that impediment and make tomography accessible to a much broader community of researchers and scientists, the Aquilos Cryo-FIB features an integrated, fully rotatable cryo-stage and adjacent cryo-hardware that protects the frozen-hydrated samples from contamination, ensuring that delicate life science cryo-samples will be kept at vitreous temperatures ( < -165°C) at all times.
Integrated into cryo-tomography workflow
The Aquilos Cryo-FIB is specifically designed to complete our cryo-tomography workflow: