Microscopy using an electron beam, instead of light, to visualize the sample, thereby allowing much greater magnification. The interactions of ELECTRONS with specimens are used to provide information about the fine structure of that specimen. In TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY the reactions of the electrons that are transmitted through the specimen are imaged. In SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY an electron beam falls at a non-normal angle on the specimen and the image is derived from the reactions occurring above the plane of the specimen.
    

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TEM - myelin sheath - detailed structure

Normal bovine sperm

Electron microscopy : 6th International Congress for Electron Microscopy, held in Kyoto, Japan, August 28th to September 4th, 1966 / edited by Ryozi Uyeda.

History of electron microscopy in Switzerland / edited by John R. Günter.

Image by Deborah Robinson : Artist in residence at Egenis ... scanning electron microscope image taken of dirt beneath the genome sequencer ... / Egenis.

Conception in the human female / Robert G. Edwards.

Advanced techniques in biological electron microscopy II : specific ultrastructural probes / edited by J.K. Koehler ; with contributions by S.S. Brown [and others].

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