Table 1.

Comparison of spinning disk confocal microscope and LSCM for human postmortem tissue studies.

Potential advantage	Spinning disk	LSCM
Higher Z resolution		X
IR spectrum imaging		X
Signal-to-background ratio		X
Spectral analysis for autofluorescence		X
Greater detector efficiency	X
Fewer discarded photons	X
Acquisition speed	X
Photobleaching	X