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Phase Contrast and Differential Interference Contrast (DIC) Microscopy
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Phase Contrast and Differential Interference Contrast (DIC) Microscopy

Published on: August 6, 2008

Hwa Shik Youn1, Suk-Won Jung

  • 1Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, Pohang University of Science and Technology, 31 San, Hyoja-dong, Pohang, KyungBuk, Korea, 790-784. hsyoun@postech.edu

Journal of Microscopy
|July 29, 2006
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