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Light and Video Microscopy

  • 3rd Edition - June 11, 2019
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Randy O. Wayne
  • Language: English

Light and Video Microscopy, Third Edition provides a step-by-step journey through philosophy, psychology and the geometrical and physical optics involved in interpreting images fo… Read more

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Light and Video Microscopy, Third Edition provides a step-by-step journey through philosophy, psychology and the geometrical and physical optics involved in interpreting images formed by light microscopes. The book addresses the intricacies necessary to set up light microscopes that allow one to visualize transparent specimens and, in the process, quantitatively determine various physico-chemical properties of specimens. This updated edition includes the most recent developments in microscopy, ensuring that it continues to be the most comprehensive, easy-to-use, and informative guide on light microscopy. With its presentation of geometrical optics, it assists the reader in understanding image formation and light movement within the microscope.

Key features

  • Provides a fully-revised, updated resource on three-dimensional (3D) structures
  • Contains a new appendices on Diffraction Theory and Advanced Image Processing
  • Provides practical applications, lab exercises and case studies on the mathematics, physics and biology used in microscopy
  • Discusses bright field, dark field, phase-contrast, fluorescence, interference, differential interference and modulation contrast microscopes, oblique illumination and photomicrography

Readership

Horticulturists, plant biologists, food scientists, microbiologists, fungal biologists, veterinarians, forensic scientists, biochemists, physicists, engineers, cell biologists, neurobiologists, reproductive biologists, and anyone using a light or video microscope

Table of contents

1. The Relation Between the Object and the Image2. Geometrical Optics3. Physical Optics4. Bright Field Microscopy5. Phase Contrast and Dark Field Microscopy, Rheinberg and Oblique Illumination6. Photomicrography7. Fluorescence Microscopy8. Polarization Microscopy9. Interference Microscopy10. Differential Interference Microscopy11. Modulation Contrast Microscopy12. Video and Digital Microscopy13. Image Processing and Analysis14. Various Kinds of Microscopes and Accessories

Product details

  • Edition: 3
  • Latest edition
  • Published: June 11, 2019
  • Language: English

About the author

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Randy O. Wayne

Randy O. Wayne is a plant cell biologist at Cornell University notable for his work on plant development. In particular, along with his colleague Peter K. Hepler, Wayne established the powerful role of calcium in regulating plant growth; accordingly, their 1985 article, Calcium and plant development, was cited by at least 405 subsequent articles to earn the "Citation Classic" award from Current Contents magazine and has been cited by hundreds more since 1993. He is an authority on how plant cells sense gravity through pressure, on the water permeability of plant membranes, light microscopy, as well as the effects of calcium on plant development. He has published over 50 articles and is the author of another book, Light and Video Microscopy.
Affiliations and expertise
Plant Cell Biologist, Cornell University, USA

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