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  2. Phase-contrast microscopy - Wikipedia

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    Phase-contrast microscopy is particularly important in biology. It reveals many cellular structures that are invisible with a bright-field microscope, as exemplified in the figure. These structures were made visible to earlier microscopists by staining, but this required additional preparation and death of the cells. The phase-contrast ...

  3. Live-cell imaging - Wikipedia

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    As living cells are translucent, they must be stained to be visible in a traditional light microscope. Unfortunately, the process of staining cells generally kills them. With the invention of the phase-contrast microscopy it became possible to observe unstained living cells in detail. After its introduction in the 1940s, live-cell imaging ...

  4. Phase-contrast imaging - Wikipedia

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    In the field of transmission electron microscopy, phase-contrast imaging may be employed to image columns of individual atoms; a more common name is high-resolution transmission electron microscopy. It is the highest resolution imaging technique ever developed, and can allow for resolutions of less than one angstrom (less than 0.1 nanometres).

  5. Quantitative phase-contrast microscopy - Wikipedia

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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 that occurs when light waves pass through a more optically dense object. [1] [2] Translucent objects, like a living human cell, absorb and scatter small amounts of light.

  6. Dark-field microscopy - Wikipedia

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    Dark-field microscopy produces an image with a dark background Operating principles of dark-field and phase-contrast microscopies Dark-field microscopy is a very simple yet effective technique and well suited for uses involving live and unstained biological samples, such as a smear from a tissue culture or individual, water-borne, single-celled ...

  7. Patching and Capping - Wikipedia

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    In other words, phase contrast is a contrast-enhancing optical technique that can be used to produce high contrast images such as living cells and subcellular including nuclei and other organelles. One of the major advantages of using phase contrast microscopy is that living cells can be examined in their natural state without being killed ...

  8. L-form bacteria - Wikipedia

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    L-form bacteria, also known as L-phase bacteria, L-phase variants or cell wall-deficient bacteria (CWDB), are growth forms derived from different bacteria. They lack cell walls . [ 1 ] Two types of L-forms are distinguished: unstable L-forms , spheroplasts that are capable of dividing, but can revert to the original morphology, and stable L ...

  9. Contrast transfer function - Wikipedia

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    TEM Ray Diagram with Phase Contrast Transfer Function. Contrast transfer theory provides a quantitative method to translate the exit wavefunction to a final image. Part of the analysis is based on Fourier transforms of the electron beam wavefunction. When an electron wavefunction passes through a lens, the wavefunction goes through a Fourier ...