Basic Microscopy - Theory and Practice

Instructors: 

Micaela Grandolfo

Amount of frontal teaching: 

4 hours theory + 4 hours practice

Basic Microscopy - Theory and Practice ( Micaela Grandolfo )

The "basic microscopy" course aims to give students some basic information necessary to understand what a microscope is made of, how it works and how to use it. The intent is to lead the student to know how to choose the microscope  most suitable for the type of experiment he/she has to carry out, and to know what equipment it must have and, above all, which objective to use to achieve the desired result. For this purpose the concepts of Numerical Aperture, Resolution, Working Distance, Depth of focus, Point Spread Function, Rayleigh Criterion and Nyquist Criterion are studied in depth. After the lectures are planned practice sessions.