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3 unusual facts about transmission electron microscopy


Crystallographic image processing

Crystallographic image processing (CIP) is a set of methods for determining the atomic structure of crystalline matter from high-resolution electron microscopy (HREM) images obtained in a transmission electron microscope (TEM).

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Transmission electron microscopy is required to differentiate between species of microsporidia, but it is time consuming and expensive.

Institute of Molecular Biotechnology

The Electron Microscopy facility provides two transmission electron microscopes of 100 kV and 300 kV.


Diagnostic electron microscopy

The transmission electron microscope (TEM) is used as an important diagnostic tool to screen human tissues at high magnification (the ultrastructural level), often in conjunction with other methods, particularly light microscopy and immunofluorescence techniques.

Electron tomography

In the field of biology, bright-field transmission electron microscopy (BF-TEM) and high-resolution TEM (HRTEM) are the primary imaging methods for tomography tilt series acquisition.

Polymer characterization

Transmission Electron Microscopy in combination with staining techniques, but also Scanning Electron Microscopy, Scanning probe microscopy are important tools to optimize the morphology of materials like polybutadiene-polystyrene polymers and many polymer blends.


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