Advantages of the UltraVIEW system: The system has mainly 2 advantages over a conventional Laser Scanning confocal microscope: higher image speed and lower photo-toxicity. The Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopy (LSCM) is a sequential scanning system where a single point of the specimen is illuminated at a time and LSCM uses a point detector (Photon Multiplier Tube (PMT)). Therefore, for LSCM, an expensive scanner is needed and electronic processing is necessary for image formation. The LSCM system is consequently relatively slow (typically 0.5-