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A "clean" background technique for high-magnification applications
1Biomedical Photographic Communications Program, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA.
The Journal of Biocommunication
|January 1, 1996
Abstract:
The creation of a micro shadow box can eliminate unwanted shadows and background textures from photomicrographs and photomacrographs.
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