Light microscopy video-enhanced contrast

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Masters BR, Kino GS. Charge coupled devices for quantitative Nipkow Disk real-time scanning confocal microscopy. In Shotton D, ed. Electron light microscopy The principles and practice of video-enhanced contrast, digital intensified fluorescence, and confocal scanning light microscopy. New York Wiley-Liss, 1993. 

The classical polarizing light microscope as developed 150 years ago is still the most versatile, least expensive analytical instrument in the hands of an experienced microscopist. Its limitations in terms of resolving power, depth of field, and contrast have been reduced in the last decade, in which we have witnessed a revolution in its evolution. Video microscopy has increased contrast electronically, and thereby revealed structures never before seen. With computer enhancement, unheard of resolutions are possible. There are daily developments in the X-ray, holographic, acoustic, confocal laser scanning, and scanning tunneling micro-... 

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