microscopy

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Electron tomography is an offshoot of electron microscopy, a now-common laboratory technique in which a beam of electrons is used to create images of microscopic objects.

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  1. noun The study of microscopes.
  2. noun The use of microscopes.
  3. noun Investigation employing a microscope.

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  • In fluorescence microscopy, the class of fluorophore (synthetics, fluorescent proteins, quantum dots, etc.), filter set characteristics (bandwidth and profile), and detector acquisition speed are variables that must be also considered.
  • - Interactive Java and Flash tutorials have been developed to help students explore complex concepts in all phases of optical microscopy, the physics of light and color, photomicrography, and digital imaging technology.
  • The use of culture as the main diagnostic tool - though it gives more accurate results than microscopy - still presents serious drawbacks in many of the settings where we work: access to culture remains very limited as the vast majority of TB patients (an estimated 85 percent) seek care in small clinics and health posts where either no test or only sputum-smear microscopy is available. —  Doctors Without Borders
  • Polarized light microscopy is a contrast-enhancing technique that may be utilized for both quantitative and qualitative analysis of optically anisotropic specimens.
  • The properties of these chips were analyzed using optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy (XEDS), and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). —  Politics.ie - 3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,27,28,29,30,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,41,42,48,49,50,52
 

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  1. = French microscopie = Sp.microscopía; as microscope + -y.
 

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/ˈmaɪkrəskoʊpi/
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