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Teaching Old Microscopes New Tricks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Stephen W. Carmichael
Stephen W. Carmichael*
Affiliation:
Mayo Clinic
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There are many transmission electron microscopes (TEMs) that have provided years of reliable service and good images, but they lack the positioning systems that are standard on the newest microscopes. A precise digital positioning capability is essential for many quantitative stereological studies and relocating specific features on a grid. For many of the older TEMs, retrofitting them with a digital positioning system is not an option, or at least a very expensive upgrade. Now Martin Hohmann-Marriott, William Sharp, Robert Roberson, and Robert Blankenship have described the hardware and software that offer a second life to these older microscopes.

Type
Research Article
Information
Microscopy Today , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , May 2006 , pp. 3 - 5
Copyright
Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2006

Footnotes

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The author gratefully acknowledges Dr. Martin Hohmann-Marriott for reviewing this article.

References

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2. Hohmann-Marriott, M.F., Sharp, W.P., Roberson, R.W., and Blankenship, R.E., Digital position determination system for electron microscopy, Microscopy Research and Technique 67:106–111, 2005.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed