Light and Electron Microscopy
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- Authors:
- Elizabeth M. Slayter, Brandeis University, Massachusetts
- Henry S. Slayter, Chief, Laboratories of Structural Molecular Biology and Electron Microscopy, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Principal Associate, Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Harvard Medical Scho
- Date Published: October 1992
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521339483
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This book describes the principles of operation of each type of microscope currently available and of use to biomedical and materials scientists. It explains the mechanisms of image formation, contrast and its enhancement, and accounts for ultimate limits on the size of observable details (resolving power and resolution). Finally it provides an account of Fourier optical theory. Principles behind the photographic methods used in microscopy are also described and there is some discussion of image processing methods. Throughout, the text emphasizes the underlying similarity of all microscope systems and, recognizing that biologists may often be uncomfortable with mathematical approaches every effort has been made to present concepts verbally.
Read more- A new and enlarged edition of Optical Methods in Biology (Wiley Interscience 1970)
- Gives the reader a greater understanding of the microscope he/she is using, leading to more effective use of the microscope
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"What a refreshing change to open a new book on microscopy that is not only packed with information on recent advances in the field but also contains a broad foundation of theoretical principles. The volume is slim, and it is hard to believe that the wide range of material is covered in such depth until one realizes what has been left out: the usual dreary rules of thumb for operating microscopes that might as well be describing masonic rituals for all the explanation--or intellectual stimulation--that they offer." Graham Dunn, Nature
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- Date Published: October 1992
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521339483
- length: 332 pages
- dimensions: 234 x 155 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.543kg
- contains: 144 b/w illus. 11 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
List of common abbreviations used
1. Introduction
2. Light and electrons
3. Wave interactions
4. Interference effects and diffraction patterns
5. Polarized light
6. Lenses
7. Imaging: microscopy and diffraction
8. Contrast
9. Resolution
10. The light microscope
11. Imaging of phase objects
12. Polarizing microscopy
13. Prospects of biological X-ray microscopy
14. The conventional transmission electron microscope
15. Scanning microscopes
16. Aspects of practical electron microscopy
17. The quest for ultimate EM resolution
18. Innovations in microscope development
19. Photography
Appendix: image location
Author index
Subject index.
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