Abstract
The conversion of a standard laboratory compound microscope into a microdensitometer for use in the 2-deoxy- d-glucose autoradiographic method of functional mapping in the brain is described. A solid-state detector was attached to the camera port of a Zeiss Universal Microscope and minor modifications to the microscope optics were made to produce a microdensitometer with a field of view 0.15 mm in diameter. Details are presented showing the modifications to the microscope which do not permanently destroy its functional ability to perform as a viewing microscope. A simple electronic circuit is presented to digitally display the output of the photo detector. Calibration of the instrument in terms of optical density or 2-deoxy- d-glucose activity is also described. The primary design goal was the construction of a simple, reliable, inexpensive microdensitometer that could be assembled by laboratory personnel. This densitometer should allow laboratories on modest budgets to have access to quantitative methods for the study of brain functional activity at a cost considerably less than the price of a commercial microdensitometer.
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