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The A to Z for Microscopy
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Oblique Illumination
Achieving conditions necessary for oblique illumination, which has been employed to enhance specimen visibility since the dawn of microscopy, can be ...
Olympus Relief Contrast analogue Hoffmans Modulation Contrast
Invented by Dr. Robert Hoffman, this contrast-enhancing technique serves to increase specimen visibility and contrast, especially for unstained and living specimens.
Opacity
Many minerals and crystals are even when thin sectioned (30 µm) not transparent. Also sections of metal samples or polished blocks are truly ...
Optical Anisotropy Studies
Optical anisotropy is studied in the polarised light microscope with accessory ...
Optical Etching
Depending on the alloy the surface of an as-polished specimen can be optically etched by using light microscopy in polarised light mode, darkfield or ...
Orthoscopy
Observation of a specimen with a conventional microscopy setup.
Overlaying Transmission and Fluorescence Images
Often it is interesting to merge fluorescence and transmission images into one image because both sources have different information contents. Such an overlay ...