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Investigative Techniques > Microscopy
Diagnosis > Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures > Diagnostic Imaging > Microscopy
Technology, Industry, and Agriculture > Engineering > Optics and Photonics > Microscopy
Natural Science Disciplines > Physics > Optics and Photonics > Microscopy

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Microscopy  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Microscopy, Optical
  • Optical Microscopy

Note

  • do not index here routinely for histol & cytol studies: Manual 26.12+

Scope note

  • 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.

In other languages

  • mikroskopia

    Finnish

  • microscopia
  • mikroskooppitarkastelu
  • mikroskooppitutkimus
  • mikroskopointi
  • Mikroskopi

    Swedish

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D008853

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