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Compare and contrast as microscopes get up close and personal

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To explore the meaning of inter-instrumentality, Chris Toumey provided samples of his blood and hair to be imaged by four different types of microscope. Here he describes the results.

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Figure 1: Image of red blood cells taken with a scanning electron microscope at a magnification of ×20,000.
Figure 2: Images of red blood cells (top) and a human hair (bottom) taken with (from left to right) a confocal microscope, an atomic force microscope and a scanning electron microscope.
Figure 3: Images of red blood cells (top) and a human hair (bottom) taken with a transmission electron microscope.

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  • 04 May 2011

    In the version of this Thesis originally published, in the caption of Fig. 3, 'tunnelling' should have read 'transmission'. This error has now been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions.

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I thank M. Waters and R. Best of the USC Medical School, and S. Ghoshroy, director of the USC Electron Microscopy Center, for their help in this project.

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