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optical microscope

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  1. See under microscope


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With a pipette, she places a single drop of this liquid on a gold-coated glass plate positioned under an optical microscope.

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This allows the researchers to study the light more closely using an optical microscope connected to a spectrometer.

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A team of bioengineering researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has introduced an algorithm called adaptive intersection maximization, or AIM, that removes high-frequency noise from super-resolution optical microscope data much faster than standard methods and results in much higher image resolutions.

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A new processing technique removes noise from optical microscope data in real time, allowing scientists to track individual molecules over 10 times more precisely than was possible before.

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"The helical twist of these fibers is impossible to discern using an optical microscope, or even some super-resolution microscopes, because these things are just too small," Lew said.

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