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Apparent Size of Small Objects

AUG 01, 1950

DOI: 10.1063/1.3066983

Stanley F. Kern
R. A. Kern

Studies of small objects such as bacteriophage with the electron microscope show that the image sizes of objects before and after shadowing are different by a larger factor than can be accounted for by the actual thickness of the metal layer and by the greater contrast provided by shadow coatings.

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Volume 3, Number 8

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