Snow samples are very fragile and therefore looking at them with
traditional light microscopes can change structures and even melt them.
The smaller inset photo was captured with
a traditional light microscope.
Not exact matches
FlatScope eliminates the tradeoff that hinders
traditional microscopes in which arrays of lenses can either gather less
light from a large field of view or gather more
light from a smaller field.
In a
traditional microscope for example, the sample is
lit with an all - encompassing beam from above.
Rather than the
light used in a
traditional microscope, this technique uses focused beams of electrons to illuminate a sample and form images with atomic resolution.
Traditional microscopes either fry the cell with too much
light, or they don't have the speed or resolution to capture the action.
The new adaptive optics / lattice
light sheet microscopy (AO - LLSM) system addresses two fundamental flaws with
traditional microscopes.