The Electron Microscope: Its Application to Medicine

the scanning electron microscope

it is only thirteen years since the scanning electron microscope has been available commercially. yet, even in this short period of time, this instrument has been a powerful tool in the investigation of topography, electrical and magnetic properties, crystal structure, cathodoluminescent characteristics etc. of solid specimens. today, this type of microscope has opened its place alongside the c...

Development of an environmental high voltage electron microscope and its application to nano and bio-materials

Environmental transmission electron microscopy has recently emerged as topics of great interest as well as ultra-high resolution electron microscopy using aberration correctors. Current research in this area has been focusing on dynamic observation with atomic resolution under gaseous atmospheres and in liquids. Nagoya University has been developing a new 1-MV high voltage (scanning) transmissi...

The Application of GPGPU to Automatic Electron Gun Alignment in the Scanning Electron Microscope

Once trained, the human brain is an excellent image processor; to replicate that skill for scanning electron microscope (SEM) image assessment demands considerable computing power. We have evaluated parallel computing for this purpose and developed an image processing tool for the automatic optimisation of electron gun alignment. The instrumental setup for this work was a Carl Zeiss 1430VP SEM ...

construction and validation of translation metacognitive strategy questionnaire and its application to translation quality

like any other learning activity, translation is a problem solving activity which involves executing parallel cognitive processes. the ability to think about these higher processes, plan, organize, monitor and evaluate the most influential executive cognitive processes is what flavell (1975) called “metacognition” which encompasses raising awareness of mental processes as well as using effectiv...

The Electron Microscope and Its Use in Biology