light microscopy
1light microscopy — In contrast to electron microscopy. See bright field, phase contrast, interference, interference contrast, interference reflection, dark field, confocal and fluorescence microscopy …
2light microscopy — use of light microscopes to view tiny objects; act of viewing tiny objects through a microscope that uses light to magnify and illuminate the objects …
3polarized light microscopy — noun The method of examining thin, transparent materials, esp from rock, using polarized light to reveal birefringence • • • Main Entry: ↑polar …
4Microscopy — is the technical field of using microscopes to view samples and objects that cannot be seen with the unaided eye (objects that are not within the resolution range of the normal eye). There are three well known branches of microscopy, optical,… …
5light microscope — n an ordinary microscope that uses light as distinguished from an electron microscope light microscopy n, pl pies * * * a microscope in which the specimen is viewed under visible light …
6Microscopy, electron (EM) — Microscopy in which an electron beam replaces light to form the image. EM has its pluses (greater magnification and resolution than optical microscopes) and minuses (you are not really seeing objects, but rather you are looking at their electron… …
7Microscopy — The examination of minute objects by means of a microscope, an instrument which provides an enlarged image of an object not visible with the naked eye. Aside from the usual microscopy, there are various special types of microscopy including, for… …
8Light field — The light field is a function that describes the amount of light traveling in every direction through every point in space. Michael Faraday was the first to propose (in an 1846 lecture entitled Thoughts on Ray Vibrations ) that light should be… …
9Dark field microscopy — (dark ground microscopy) describes microscopy methods, in both light and electron microscopy, which exclude the unscattered beam from the image. As a result, the field around the specimen (i.e. where there is no specimen to scatter the beam) is… …
10Differential interference contrast microscopy — Micrasterias furcata imaged in transmitted DIC microscopy. Differential interference contrast microscopy (DIC), also known as Nomarski Interference Contrast (NIC) or Nomarski microscopy, is an optical microscopy illumination technique used to… …
