Scientific image

This chapter will concentrate on the very high quality detectors that are needed in scientific imagers and spectrographs, and other applications that require high sensitivity, such as acquisition and guiding, adaptive optics and interferometry. We limit our discussion to focal plane arrays - large two-dimensional arrays of pixels - as opposed to single pixel detectors (e.g., avalanche photodiodes). 

The conditions for handling emulsions as well as the required equipment (see Table 6) have been detailed by Kodak Scientific Imaging Systems in their technical bulletin regarding microradio autography (12). 

Summarized from Kodak Scientific Imaging Systems (12), with permission. 

Kodak Scientific Imaging Systems. Microautoradiography Autoradiography at the Light Microscope Level, Eastman Kodak, Rochester, New York, 1994. 

With acknowledgement to Mr. B.C. Breton, Scientific Imaging Group, CUED... 

In defending his constructive empiricism against the no miracle argument for scientific realism, van Fraassen replies in a similar way (The Scientific Image, 39-40, esp. footnote 34). 

Van Fraassen, Bas C. The Scientific Image. Oxford Clarendon Press, 1980. 

Eastman Kodak Co (1987) Scientific imaging with Kodak films and plates Publ No P-315, Rochester, New York... 

Figure 4.9. Staining of Proteins After Electrophoresis. Proteins subjected to electrophoresis on an SDS-polyacrylamide gel can be visualized by staining with Coomassie blue. [Courtesy of Kodak Scientific Imaging Systems.]...

In a similar vein, Patrice Brett s conceptualization of Lavoisier s scientific sociability focused less on the enduring identity, or structure, of his solitary mind than on the ways in which he constructed his social and scientific image among the different audiences and communities with which he was involved. ... 

Although manifest can often be identified in this chapter with macroscopic and scientific with microscopic (and this tends to be Sellars s view), these terms should not be taken as synonyms. Assume a nonmanifest scientific theory that takes certain macroscopic objects as basic objects that are not understood in terms of manifest concepts (e.g., supramacroscopic objects or middle-sized unobservables). Such a theory would be a straightforward part of the scientific image. By contrast, lots of unobservables are postulated in the manifest image." ... 

Photometries, Ltd. Scientific imaging products Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A. Tel 1-520-889-9933, fax 1-520-573-1944, http //www.photomet.com... 

Historians and philosophers have frequently attempted to deconstruct the meaning of scientific images ranging from the insects in Robert... 

Sellars, W. (1967). Philosophy and the scientific image of man. In R. Colodny, ed.. Frontiers of Science and Philosophy. University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. 35-78. 

For these distinctions see, in particular, Sellars [1963] Bachelard [ 1996] (first publication 1957) and Rheinberger [1997]. Sellar s distinction between manifest and scientific images largely coincides with the distinction between perceptible and imperceptible objects (see also van Brakel [2000] pp. 41-46). 

Brakel, Jaap van. 2000. Philosophy of Chemistry. Between the Manifest and the Scientific Image, Louvain Philosophical Studies 15. Leuven Leuven University Press. 

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