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Microscopy

The use of instrumentation and techniques for visualizing material and details that cannot be seen by the unaided eye. It is usually done by enlarging images, transmitted by light or electron beams, with optical or magnetic lenses that magnify the entire image field. With scanning microscopy, images are generated by collecting output from the specimen in a point-by-point fashion, on a magnified scale, as it is scanned by a narrow beam of light or electrons, a laser, a conductive probe, or a topographical probe.

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Tree Number(s): E01.370.350.515, E05.595, H01.671.617.562

MeSH Unique ID: D008853

Entry Terms:

  • Optical Microscopy
  • Microscopy, Optical
  • Compound Microscopy
  • Microscopy, Compound
  • Hand-Held Microscopy
  • Hand Held Microscopy
  • Microscopy, Hand-Held
  • Light Microscopy
  • Microscopy, Light
  • Simple Microscopy
  • Microscopy, Simple

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