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Microscopy, Phase-Contrast

"Microscopy, Phase-Contrast" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A form of interference microscopy in which variations of the refracting index in the object are converted into variations of intensity in the image. This is achieved by the action of a phase plate.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Microscopy, Phase-Contrast" by people in this website by year, and whether "Microscopy, Phase-Contrast" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 16 publications over 12 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2007 and 2012
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