Seth R. Goldstein , Thomas Hubin , Thomas G. Smith Jr.
{"title":"An improved no-moving-parts video-rate confocal microscope","authors":"Seth R. Goldstein , Thomas Hubin , Thomas G. Smith Jr.","doi":"10.1016/0739-6260(92)90019-A","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0739-6260(92)90019-A","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Several years ago our research program developed a video-rate confocal microscope with no moving parts, based on synchronizing and aligning the scan of an image dissector tube (IDT) with the light returning from a microscope stage that has been acousto-optically scanned by a laser beam. Improvements on the original system have recently been completed. The laser power has been substantially increased and the laser scan is now brought into the Nikon Diaphot inverted microscope through the epi-illumination port. Aberrations in the scanned beam have been reduced by performing the beam shaping required by the acousto-optic deflectors using prisms instead of cylindrical lenses. The IDT is located at the side camera output port at the end of a simple, efficient light path. The new system is described in detail and results obtained using the microscope in reflection and fluorescence mode are presented.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100925,"journal":{"name":"Micron and Microscopica Acta","volume":"23 4","pages":"Pages 437-446"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0739-6260(92)90019-A","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74392533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Molecular biology in living cells by means of digital optical microscopy","authors":"Paolo Gualtieri","doi":"10.1016/0739-6260(92)90028-C","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0739-6260(92)90028-C","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The intention of this review is to introduce to microscopists some of the fundamental limits as well as the advances made in digital optical microscopy techniques, also to show their potentialities in the field of molecular cell biology. Several items within the wide field of this subject will be discussed, such as geometric and photometric features, photophysics, statistics of photon flux and detection, spatial and intensity characteristics of digital images, their manipulation and display, fluorescent probes, and measuring techniques.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100925,"journal":{"name":"Micron and Microscopica Acta","volume":"23 3","pages":"Pages 239-257"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0739-6260(92)90028-C","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82549979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of tunicamycin on autophagy in cultured rat fibroblasts","authors":"Eeva-Liisa Punnonen, Soile Autio, Hilkka Reunanen","doi":"10.1016/0739-6260(92)90097-W","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0739-6260(92)90097-W","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100925,"journal":{"name":"Micron and Microscopica Acta","volume":"23 1","pages":"Pages 117-118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0739-6260(92)90097-W","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87877843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A sensitive way to determine the thickness of thin carbon films by SEM","authors":"M.D. Bentzon , S.S. Eskildsen , P.S. Nielsen","doi":"10.1016/0739-6260(92)90108-P","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0739-6260(92)90108-P","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100925,"journal":{"name":"Micron and Microscopica Acta","volume":"23 1","pages":"Pages 141-142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0739-6260(92)90108-P","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90382822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. El-Bestawy , E. Bellinger, M. Hassan, S. Helmi, D.C. Sigee
{"title":"X-ray microanalytical studies on phytoplankton and suspended matter in a polluted freshwater environment: Lake Maryut, Alexandria, Egypt","authors":"E. El-Bestawy , E. Bellinger, M. Hassan, S. Helmi, D.C. Sigee","doi":"10.1016/0739-6260(92)90044-E","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0739-6260(92)90044-E","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100925,"journal":{"name":"Micron and Microscopica Acta","volume":"23 3","pages":"Pages 359-360"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0739-6260(92)90044-E","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78790577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ernst-Rudolf Krefting, Kai Frentzel, Jörg Teβarek, Hans-Jürgen Hohling
{"title":"Quantitative electronprobe X-ray microanalysis on the calcium and phosphorus distribution and calcium transport in epiphyseal growth plate","authors":"Ernst-Rudolf Krefting, Kai Frentzel, Jörg Teβarek, Hans-Jürgen Hohling","doi":"10.1016/0739-6260(92)90047-H","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0739-6260(92)90047-H","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100925,"journal":{"name":"Micron and Microscopica Acta","volume":"23 3","pages":"Pages 365-366"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0739-6260(92)90047-H","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90489872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HREM study of zeolite Na-Y","authors":"Viveka Alfredsson","doi":"10.1016/0739-6260(92)90104-L","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0739-6260(92)90104-L","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100925,"journal":{"name":"Micron and Microscopica Acta","volume":"23 1","pages":"Pages 133-134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0739-6260(92)90104-L","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80809681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Limitations on cell volume determination using three-dimensional optical microscopy","authors":"D.F. Abbott, K.A. Nugent","doi":"10.1016/0739-6260(92)90023-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0739-6260(92)90023-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>One important application for three-dimensional microscopy is the determination of the volumes of biological cells. In this paper we investigate the application of three-dimensional deconvolution techniques to the problem of cell volume determination. The theoretical discussion is based on a Fourier sampling condition for reliable image reconstruction and it is shown, using this condition and simulated images, that the cell volume determination is reliable only for cells with a shape and orientation such that their length along the optic axis is much greater than their width.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100925,"journal":{"name":"Micron and Microscopica Acta","volume":"23 4","pages":"Pages 491-500"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0739-6260(92)90023-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90865803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HREM investigations of two minerals, Cu3(As,Sb)S4","authors":"Mihály Pósfai , Margareta Sundberg","doi":"10.1016/0739-6260(92)90141-Y","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0739-6260(92)90141-Y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100925,"journal":{"name":"Micron and Microscopica Acta","volume":"23 1","pages":"Pages 207-208"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0739-6260(92)90141-Y","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91161653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}