Not exact matches
In 1990, Henderson was the first to use an electron
microscope to produce «a three - dimensional
image of a protein
at atomic resolution.
FlatScope is being developed
at Rice University for use as a fluorescent
microscope able to capture three - dimensional data and produce
images from anywhere within the field of view.
Then in 1990, after 15 years» work refining sample preparation and electron detection, Henderson succeeded in using an electron
microscope to create an
image of a large bacterial cell membrane protein called bacteriorhodopsin, and do it
at atomic resolution.
Scientists and photographers used tools ranging from traditional cameras to X-rays to million - dollar
microscopes to create the art in «
Images From Science 2,» on view
at the Rochester Institute of Technology beginning October 11.
Cobalt atoms shine in an electron
microscope image of a new catalyst for hydrogen production invented
at Rice University.
The
image, captured by a scanning electron
microscope, was taken as the nanowires grew on silicon
at room temperature.
Transmission Electron
Microscope (TEM)
images of Pd - Ni - P metallic glass
at different temperatures show the phase transition that involves structural changes in atomic clusters.
Now, scientists
at UCLA have used a powerful
microscope to
image the three - dimensional positions of individual atoms to a precision of 19 trillionths of a meter, which is several times smaller than a hydrogen atom.
For this study, a tumor cell line was transplanted into a rat and
imaged with each of the following: conventional MRI, the radiotracer carbon - 13 (C - 13) pyruvate and hyperpolarized MRI
at a resolution of 2.5 mm, Medipix positron detector, luminescence sensor and a fluorescence
microscope.
The researchers, who evaluated the BSCB in test animals
at seven and 30 days after stroke modeling, found that ischemic stroke damaged the gray and white matter in the cervical spinal cord on both sides of the spinal column, based on analysis of electron
microscope images.
To enhance the spatial resolution of their
microscope they put a single carbon monoxide molecule on the tip, a technique called non-contact AFM first used by Gerhard Meyer and collaborators
at IBM Zurich to
image molecules several years ago.
Using scanning tunnelling
microscopes, scientists
at TU Vienna have now been able to
image the catalytic behaviour of platinum sitting on iron - oxide, which allowed them to explain the process on an atomic scale.
In their new study, they adapted DNA - PAINT technology to
microscopes that are widespread among cell biology laboratories, called confocal
microscopes, and that are used by researchers to
image whole cells and thicker tissues
at lower resolution.
«FMRIs
image at a high level, and with many
microscopes, you're zoomed in too far to recognize the forest for the trees,» Dyer said.
Following their sodium fluoride scans, the patients had surgery to remove calcified plaques and the extracted tissue was
imaged, this time
at higher resolution, using a laboratory PET / CT scanner and an electron
microscope.
His «nanotomography» method turns a scanning probe
microscope on successive layers of a material to build up three - dimensional
images of its innards
at the nanometer scale.
Dr Ann Wheeler said: «The spinning disk
microscope produces focused
images at high speed because it has a disk with an array of tiny holes in it which remove the out of focus light.
The first
microscope allows researchers to obtain fast moving
images at double the spatial resolution of a conventional
microscope.
The increased speed
at which the new dual
microscope can
image the cells allows for clearer
images of even very fast moving viruses.
Traditionally, SPIM
microscopes rotate the sample so that they can clearly see all the dimensions, but this severely limits the imaging speed and can increase the damage done to the cells from light exposure because of the many extra
images taken
at multiple angles.
This perpendicular view results in undistorted 3 - dimensional
images, and since only two views are acquired, the
microscope can still capture events
at very high speed.
The
microscope's speed is basically limited by the speed of its camera; for this demonstration, the team was able to
image intracellular dynamics
at up to 200 Hz.
When Oliveira and colleagues looked
at the leaves under an electron
microscope, they noticed tiny roundworms called nematodes sitting on the leaves (inset
image).
An automated
microscope takes
images every 20 minutes
at multiple locations in the microfluidic device, and multiple devices
at once, allowing for the tracking of dozens of cells in one experiment.
Researchers
at OIST
imaged these samples in glass - like amorphous ice, which contains hundreds of pieces of heterochromatin, under a cryo - electron
microscope.
Researchers
at the University of Leeds and in Japan used electron
microscopes to capture
images of the largest type of motor protein, called dynein, during the act of stepping along its molecular track.
A scanning electron
microscope image shows cobalt - infused metal oxide - laser induced graphene produced
at Rice University.
In the 1970s biologists studying pregnant baboons were shocked as they looked
at electron
microscope images of the placenta.
The
images were created using an automated laser scanning
microscope developed
at LOCI that shines a laser
at tumor specimens mounted on
microscope slides.
An
image from the cryogenic transmission electron
microscope that colleagues
at HU prepared confirmed their findings.
Now Peter Velikov and Siu - Tung Yau
at the University of Alabama
at Huntsville have used an atomic force
microscope to take the first
images of the birth of the seed crystals, a process called nucleation.
Those probes can
image a surface
at the atomic level by detecting the tunneling of electrons from the surface across a small gap to the
microscope's tiny scanning tip.
It is one of the most accurate measurement instruments available today: the high - performance
microscope at the Institute of Applied Physics of TU Wien acquires
images of individual atoms by moving the tip of a fine needle...
The
image at right zooms into the mask's center with a scanning electron
microscope.
«The recorded
images map the unique interaction between the different vibrational modes of the molecule and the varying enhanced electric fields sustained
at different positions of the
microscope's tip,» said Dr. Wayne P. Hess, a PNNL chemical physicist and co-author of the study.
The
microscope captures 3D
images about once per second
at resolutions of about 200 to 250 nanometers, not atomic resolution, but still
at a dynamic level never before seen.
Atomic force
microscopes are able to reproduce spectacular
images,
at the scale of single atoms.
Samples were critical point dried using a Tousimis Samdri - 780a and
imaged by a Hitachi S2600 scanning electron
microscope at Washington University's Central Institute of the Deaf.
IMAGE: This is C. difficile sporulation seen through a phase contrast
microscope at a magnification of 1000X.
Staff scientist Gang Ren (standing) and is postdoc colleague Lei Zhang can checking
images of individual proteins from their cryo - electron
microscope at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry.
This innovative X-ray
microscope (XRM) operates
at 5.4 keV, a lower energy that delivers better contrast and
image qualit... Read more...
By taking multiple
images of the iron - platinum nanoparticle with an advanced electron
microscope at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and using powerful reconstruction algorithms developed
at UCLA, the researchers determined the precise three - dimensional arrangement of atoms in the nanoparticle.
Surface chemistry on nanosized gold particles, shown here
at low - magnification, left, and high - magnification, right, in
images produced with a scanning electron
microscope, was studied with infrared light produced by Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source.
Now engineers
at MIT have designed an atomic force
microscope that scans
images 2,000 times faster than existing commercial models.
A transmission electron
microscope image taken
at Argonne shows the honeycomb structure of the silicon nanowires.
Researchers used a powerful X-ray
microscope at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source (ALS) to capture
images of nerve cell samples
at different stages of maturity as they became more specialized in their function — this process is known as «differentiation.»
The
image was taken using a fluorescent
microscope at the SLIM facility in the School of Life Sciences.
Thanks to some remarkable developments in
microscopes and staining tools, we can easily capture
images and sit in awe and wonder
at the hitherto invisible beauty found in nature.
In fact, every participant used the following technologies
at least once: PowerPoint notes, simulations, animations, digital
images, videos, digital diagrams and models, audio clips, Web sites, simulated labs, and digital
microscopes.
A tutorial for performing adjustments to obtain Köhler illumination can be found
at microscopyu.com/tutorials/java/kohler/; other resources for online tutorials on obtaining high - quality digital
microscope images are listed in BOX 3.