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    Phase-contrast microscopy (PCM) is an optical microscopy technique that converts phase shifts in light passing through a transparent specimen to brightness...
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    Quantitative phase contrast microscopy or quantitative phase imaging are the collective names for a group of microscopy methods that quantify the phase shift...
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    interference contrast (DIC) microscopy, also known as Nomarski interference contrast (NIC) or Nomarski microscopy, is an optical microscopy technique used...
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    Becke line, oblique, darkfield, phase contrast, and objective stop dispersion staining. In electron microscopy: Phase-contrast imaging More sophisticated techniques...
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  • differentiate between structures under analysis. In conventional light microscopy, phase contrast can be employed to distinguish between structures of similar transparency...
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    sample Phase-contrast illumination, sample contrast comes from interference of different path lengths of light through the sample Dark-field microscopy has...
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    Live-cell imaging (category Microscopy)
    quantitative phase-contrast microscopy has emerged as an alternative microscopy method for live-cell imaging. Quantitative phase-contrast microscopy has an...
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    holographic microscopy thus makes it possible to visualize and quantify transparent objects and is therefore also referred to as quantitative phase-contrast microscopy...
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    weaker contrast. Crystal structure can also be investigated by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM), also known as phase contrast. When...
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    disambiguation, the technique is also often referred to as phase contrast transmission electron microscopy, although this term is less appropriate. At present...
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    light, and contrast in the sample is caused by attenuation of the transmitted light in dense areas of the sample. Bright-field microscopy is the simplest...
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    to microscopy won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1953. Ever since, phase-contrast microscopy has been an important field of optical microscopy. The...
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  • Kondo, Yukihito; Ikuhara, Yuichi (August 2012). "Differential phase-contrast microscopy at atomic resolution". Nature Physics. 8 (8): 611–615. Bibcode:2012NatPh...
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  • maize, a high yield variety Quantitative phase contrast microscopy, a group of microscopy methods Quasi-phase-matching, a technique in nonlinear optics...
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    differential interference contrast microscopy (DIC microscopy), contrast is increased by using components in the light path which convert phase gradients in the...
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    detector an appealing technique in contrast to conventional high-resolution electron microscopy, in which phase-contrast effects mean that atomic resolution...
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    Zernike phase-contrast microscopy, differential interference contrast microscopy (DIC), or interferometry. Zernike phase-contrast microscopy introduces...
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    eigenfunctions or stretch modes. PST performs similar functionality as phase-contrast microscopy, but on digital images. PST can be applied to digital images and...
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  • best known for his work on biomedical optics and quantitative phase-contrast microscopy. Popescu was born on October 24, 1971, in Romania. He obtained...
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  • observed. Phase telescopes are primarily used for aligning the optical components required for Köhler illumination and phase contrast microscopy. For Köhler...
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    test and reference beams. The device is similar in operation to phase-contrast microscopy. PDI systems are valuable tool to measure absolute surface characteristics...
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    Extremely high-intensity sources of 9.25 keV X-rays for X-ray phase-contrast microscopy, from a focal spot about 10 μm × 10 μm, may be obtained with a...
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    light and DNA-damaging chemicals. Visualising endospores under light microscopy can be difficult due to the impermeability of the endospore wall to dyes...
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    Microscope (category Microscopy)
    specifically sensitive cameras. Phase-contrast microscopy is an optical microscopic illumination technique in which small phase shifts in the light passing...
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    For illumination techniques like dark field, phase contrast and differential interference contrast microscopy additional optical components must be precisely...
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    laureate of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Physics and the inventor of phase-contrast microscopy, they play important roles in various optics branches such as...
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    Androutsos, George (2009). "Alfred Francois Donné (1801-78): a pioneer of microscopy, microbiology and haematology". Journal of Medical Biography. 17 (2):...
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  • Köhler illumination (category Optical microscopy)
    objective (e.g. the phase ring for phase contrast microscopy) and at the condenser diaphragm (e.g. the annulus for phase contrast microscopy) should also appear...
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  • Photoemission of adsorbed xenon PC or PCS – Photocurrent spectroscopy Phase contrast microscopy PhD – Photoelectron diffraction PD – Photodesorption PDEIS – Potentiodynamic...
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    cytoplasm granules (present or absent, or more precisely, visible on light microscopy or not thus visible). The other dichotomy is by lineage: Myeloid cells...
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