Digital Imaging for TEM - Part III Characterizing Digital Images

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Last months issue of this publication contained the second article article in this series on digital imaging far TEM - and listed factors that may be stimulating the recent interest in digilal imaging for TEM. Most of the factors are concerned with issues of functionality. A digital imaging system can enhance TEM operation, image storage, image processing and communication. Significantly, the surge in interest was not linked to claims that digital images have better detail than images captured using sheet film. This is a pivotal issue for some microscopists. Nevertheless, my experience has been that many rnicroscopists, even skeptical microscopists, are surprised at the quality of output from a modern digital imaging system when using a high quality output device to produce hard copy images.