Introduction:
The past decade has seen huge advances in the application of microscopy in
all areas of science. This welcome development in microscopy has been
paralleled by an expansion of the vocabulary of technical terms used in
microscopy: terms have been coined for new instruments and techniques and,
as microscopes reach even higher resolution, the use of terms that relate to
the optical and physical principles underpinning microscopy is now
commonplace.
The Dictionary of Microscopy was compiled to meet this development and
provides concise definitions of over 2,500 terms used in the fields of light
microscopy, electron microscopy, scanning probe microscopy and X-ray
microscopy and related techniques. Written by Dr Julian P. Heath, Editor of
Microscopy and Analysis,
this dictionary is intended to provide easy navigation through the microscopy
terminology and to be a first point of reference for definitions of new and established terms.
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