Digital image processing, an integral part of microscopy, is important to the fields of medicine and scientific research. This book provides a reference on the theory, technique, and applications of this technology. It covers image digitization and display, object measurement and classification, autofocusing, and structured illumination.
Describes the instruments, samples, protocols, and analyses that belong to cryo-EM. This title emphasizes the relatedness of the ideas, instrumentation, and methods underlying various cryo-EM approaches which allow practitioners to easily move between them.
Deals with a description of the instruments, samples, protocols, and analyses that belong to cryo-EM. This title emphasizes the relatedness of the ideas, instrumentation, and methods underlying all cryo-EM approaches which allow practictioners to easily move between them.
Part of the "Reliable Lab Solutions" series, this title brings together chapters from volumes 302, 307 and 356 of "Methods in Enzymology". It documents many diverse uses for confocal microscopy in disciplines that broadly span biology. It describes techniques in a context that allows comparisons to other related methodologies.
Builds a foundation in the basics of light and polarizing microscopy. This book focuses on forensic science applications and explores applications in other disciplines that benefit from microscopy. It also includes chapters that detail topics ranging from basic theoretical knowledge to advanced subjects such as electron and confocal microscopy.
In-depth coverage of all imaging technologies from the optical to the electron and scanning techniques. Adopting a twofold approach, this ready reference and handbook in one firstly presents the various technologies as such, before going on to cover the materials class by class.
Examines the physical and technical foundation for developments in applied scanning probe techniques. This title offers an overview of SPM applications. It introduces scanning probe microscopy, including sensor technology and tip characterization, and presents chapters on use in various industrial applications.
Examining the physical and technical foundation for recent progress with this technique, this book offers a comprehensive overview of SPM applications, now that industrial applications span topographic and dynamical surface studies of thin-film semiconductors, polymers, paper, ceramics, and magnetic and biological materials.
Provides a comprehensive overview of SPM applications. The international perspective offered in these three volumes contributes to the evolution of SPM techniques. Volumes II, III and IV examine the physical and technical foundation for progress in applied near-field scanning probe techniques.
Presents a review of the status of three-dimensional (3D) digital holographic imaging of phase microscopic objects, with discussions on the positive and negative features of classical, electronic and holographic microscopy. This work presents the technical details and results of the restoration of the 3D shapes of bacteria, yeasts and thin films.
This market-leading text has been fully updated and expanded in the first new edition for 12 years. Now with four-color illustrations and hundreds of new self-assessment questions, the text is a one-stop shop on this materials characterization technique.
Most information about the nature of living cells is discovered through light microscope observation. This book offers an informative guide on light microscopy. It prepares the reader for interpretation of an image and understanding of the living cell.
The book is concerned with the theory, background, and practical use of transmission electron microscopes with lens correctors that can correct the effects of spherical aberration. The book also covers a comparison with aberration correction in the TEM and applications of analytical aberration corrected STEM in materials science and biology.
Adopting a didactical approach from fundamentals to actual experiments and applications, this handbook and ready reference covers modern focused ion beam workstations, scanning electron microscopes and transmission electron microscopes, while also showing how to combine them for real-time observation.
By using nanotechnological methods, we can poke around protein molecules, genes, membranes, cells and more. This book describes the physical properties of supporting structures from the molecular level with a special emphasis on their designs based on the mechanical strength and flexibility, membrane and other biological nanostructures.
Cryoelectron microscopy of biological molecules is the growth area in biophysics and structural biology. A number of workers will employ CryoEM for structural studies in their own research, and a large proportion of biomedical researchers will have a growing interest in understanding what the capabilities and limits of this approach are.
This book provides a comprehensive explanation of the theory and practice of STEM from introductory to advanced levels, covering the instrument, image formation and scattering theory, and definition and measurement of resolution for both imaging and analysis.
Suitable for researchers and practitioners involved in surface science, this book discusses the basics of the scanning probe microscopy techniques as well as material class-specific applications. It offers access to these methods for advanced students and allows researchers to apply these atomic-resolution imaging techniques to various systems.
Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM) is the enabling tool for nano(bio)technology, which has opened new vistas in many interdisciplinary research areas. Concomitant with the developments in SPM instrumentation and techniques are opportunities in materials nanofabrication and characterisation. This book highlights the advances in the field of SPM.
This first book to focus on all principles and aspects of AFM in liquid phase is perfectly structured, making it easy-to-follow for non-AFM specialists. At the same time, it is an excellent introduction for researchers wishing to use this important technique for evaluating biological material and biological applications.
A complete examination of the uses of the atomic force microscope in biology and medicine This cutting-edge text, written by a team of leading experts, is the first detailed examination of the latest, most powerful scanning probe microscope, the atomic force microscope (AFM).
A guide to scanning and transmission microscopes and to the analytical techniques based on them. It covers the techniques of electron energy loss spectroscopy and energy dispersive X-ray analysis. It compares electron microscopic techniques to many of the competing physical investigative techniques available.
The modern electron microscope yields a wealth of quantitative knowledge pertaining to structure, dynamics, and function barely matched by any other single scientific instrument. This book compares the merits of coherent electron waves with those of synchrotron radiation.