Phase Contrast Microscopy- Definition, Principle, Parts, Uses

Phase Contrast Microscopy

What is Phase-contrast microscopy? Unstained living cells absorb practically no light. Poor light absorption results in extremely small differences in the intensity distribution in the image. This makes the cells barely, or not at all, visible in a brightfield microscope. Phase-contrast microscopy is an optical microscopy technique that converts phase shifts in the light passing through a transparent specimen to brightness changes in the image. It was first described in 1934 by Dutch physicist Frits Zernike. Principle of Phase contrast …Read more