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Imaging techniques in microbiology
1Department of Biochemistry, Beckman Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305-5307, USA.
Current Opinion in Microbiology
|March 6, 1999
Abstract:
Recent advances in optical imaging have dramatically expanded the capabilities of the light microscope and its usefulness in microbiology research. Some of these advances include improved fluorescent probes, better cameras, new techniques such as confocal and deconvolution microscopy, and the use of computers in imaging and image analysis. These new technologies have now been applied to microbiological problems with resounding success.