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A simple technique to measure the movements of the microscope stage along the x and y axes for stereological methods
Author(s) -
Kaplan S.,
Canan S.,
Aslan H.,
Ünal B.,
Sahi˙n B.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of microscopy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.569
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1365-2818
pISSN - 0022-2720
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2818.2001.00931.x
Subject(s) - microscope , measure (data warehouse) , stage (stratigraphy) , movement (music) , optics , optical microscope , sampling (signal processing) , simple (philosophy) , materials science , computer science , physics , acoustics , geology , scanning electron microscope , data mining , detector , paleontology , philosophy , epistemology
Measurements of microscope stage movements in the x and y directions are of importance for some stereological methods such as the optical disector and optical fractionator. The length of stage movements can be measured with great precision and accuracy using a suitable motorized stage, which is generally a computer‐assisted instrument. This type of equipment is generally too expensive for and not readily available in many laboratories. This paper describes a simple method to measure the movements of the microscope stage along the x and y directions, which can be used for purposes such as systematic uniform random sampling. It needs a microscope attachment consisting of two dial indicators; one of them is used to measure the amount of stage movement along the x ‐axis and the other measures the amount of movement along the y ‐axis. Movements of the stage on the micrometre‐scale can be measured easily using this device.