Overview
- Updated review of all kinds of microscopy
- Clear and exhaustive presentation of wide spread biological applications
- Updated review of hardware and software components in microscopy instrumentation
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Nato Security through Science Series B: (NASTB)
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About this book
How deep we can see inside Nature's smallest secrets? Will it be possible some day in the near future to investigate living structures at atomic level? This area of study is very interdisciplinary, since it applies the principles and the techniques of biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics, and engineering to elucidate the structures of biological macromolecules, of supramolecular structures, organelles, and cells. This book offers updated information on how much information we are able to obtain in the exploration of the inner details of biological specimens in their native structure and composition.
The book deals with the implementation of laser beam and stage scanning systems incorporating confocal optics or multiphoton microscopy; the advent of new electro-optical detectors with great sensitivity, linearity, and dynamic range; the possibility of 2D fast image enhancement, reconstruction, restoration, analysis and 3D display, and the application of luminescence techniques (FLIMT, FRET combined with the use of quantum dots), which gives the possibility to investigate the chemical and molecular spatio-temporal organization of life processes; Electron Microscopy and Scanning Force Microscopy (SFM), are also presented, which has opened completely new perspectives for analyzing the surface topography of biological matter in its aqueous environment at a resolution comparable to that achieved by EM.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: From Cells to Proteins: Imaging Nature across Dimensions
Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, held in Pisa, Italy, 12-23 September 2004
Editors: Valtere Evangelista, Laura Barsanti, Vincenzo Passarelli, Paolo Gualtieri
Series Title: Nato Security through Science Series B:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3616-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3614-9Published: 07 November 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3615-6Published: 07 November 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3616-3Published: 22 May 2007
Series ISSN: 1871-465X
Series E-ISSN: 1871-4676
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 479
Topics: Life Sciences, general, Cell Biology, Computer Appl. in Life Sciences, Biological Microscopy, Measurement Science and Instrumentation