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Everything about Microscopy
Viewing of objects which are too small to be seen with the naked eye
Microscopy is the technical field of using microscopes to view subjects too small to be seen with the naked eye. There are three well-known branches of microscopy: optical, electron, and scanning probe microscopy, along with the emerging field of X-ray microscopy. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: MicroscopyA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Dynamic light scattering and transmission electron microscopy in drug delivery: a roadmap for correct characterization of nanoparticles and interpretation of resultsInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The microscopeThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: THE USE OF LEAD CITRATE AT HIGH pH AS AN ELECTRON-OPAQUE STAIN IN ELECTRON MICROSCOPYCited 19,119 times
- Go sideways: Fluorescence microscopeA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Confocal microscopyA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun The study of microscopes, their design and manufacture.
Noun The use of microscopes.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
THE USE OF LEAD CITRATE AT HIGH pH AS AN ELECTRON-OPAQUE STAIN IN ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
A low-viscosity epoxy resin embedding medium for electron microscopy
MotionCor2: anisotropic correction of beam-induced motion for improved cryo-electron microscopy
Two-Photon Laser Scanning Fluorescence Microscopy
Sub-diffraction-limit imaging by stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM)
WSXM : A software for scanning probe microscopy and a tool for nanotechnology
Breaking the diffraction resolution limit by stimulated emission: stimulated-emission-depletion fluorescence microscopy
A guided tour into subcellular colocalization analysis in light microscopy
🆕 Influential since 2022
Dynamic light scattering and transmission electron microscopy in drug delivery: a roadmap for correct characterization of nanoparticles and interpretation of results
Rapid single-particle chemical imaging of nanoplastics by SRS microscopy
Ångström-resolution fluorescence microscopy
Segment Anything for Microscopy
Circularly polarised luminescence laser scanning confocal microscopy to study live cell chiral molecular interactions
📚 Books worth reading
The microscopeGage, Simon Henry · 1899
Evenings at the Microscope: Or, Researches Among the Minuter Organs and Forms of Animal LifePhilip Henry Gosse · 1859
Greg's MicroscopeMillicent E. Selsam · 1963
Common objects of the microscopeJohn George Wood · 1861
The microscopeJabez Hogg · 1854
Manipulation of the microscopeBausch, Edward · 1885
The microscopistJ. H. Wythe · 1851
Mikroskopie und Chemie am KrankenbettHermann Lenhartz · 1893
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🔗 Related topics
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- Confocal microscopy Confocal microscopy is an optical imaging technique for increasing optical resolution and contrast of a micrograph by means of using a spatial pinhole…
- Microscope A microscope is a laboratory instrument used to examine objects that are too small to be seen by the naked eye. Microscopy is the science of investigating…
- Optical sectioning Optical sectioning is the process by which a suitably designed microscope can produce clear images of focal planes deep within a thick sample. This is…
- Optical microscope The optical microscope, also referred to as a light microscope, is a type of microscope that commonly uses visible light and a system of lenses to generate…
- Light sheet fluorescence microscopy Light-sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM) is a fluorescence microscopy technique with an intermediate-to-high optical resolution, but good optical sectioning…
- Super-resolution microscopy Super-resolution microscopy is a series of super-resolution imaging techniques in optical microscopy that allow such images to have resolutions higher…
- Near-field scanning optical microscope Near-field scanning optical microscopy (NSOM) or scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM) is a microscopy technique for nanostructure investigation…