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3. CONTENTS….
• History of microscopy
• The basics concepts of optics
• Optical phenomena of interest to microscopy
• Microscopes in dental research
- principles, specimen preparation and applications
• Choice of microscopes for successful research
• Microscopes in clinical dentistry
• Conclusion
4. A WALK DOWN MEMORY LANE…..
Leeuwenhoek- Binnig and Rohrer -
Simple microscope Scanning tunnelling
Hillier- microscope
Galileo -
TEM
Occhiolino
1609 1674 1938 1981
1590 1665 1931 1957 1983
Jannsen – Ruska –
Compound Electron microscope Binnig -
microscope Atomic force
microscope
Robert Hooke -
Micrographia Petran and Minsky –
Confocal microscopy
6. MAGNIFICATION
• ENLARGING SOMETHING ONLY IN APPEARANCE
• OPTICAL MAGNIFICATION (Power) – Apparent size : True
size…….at 25 cm distance
• LINEAR AND ANGULAR MAGNIFICATIONS
• HIGHER MAGNIFICATION LENSES GENERALLY
HAVE HIGH RESOLUTION
MAGNIFICATION (M) = M0 x Me
• Useful magnification…
• Depth of field ……
• Field number and size….
7. RESOLUTION
The ability to differentiate between two closely positioned bright
objects.
Resolving power line
* Light microscope includes phase contrast and fluorescence microscopes. Electron
microscope includes transmisson electron microscope.
8. THE BASIC CONCEPTS OF OPTICS - OPTICAL
PHENOMENA OF INTEREST TO MICROSCOPY
REFLECTION Vs REFRACTION
refraction
reflection
9. Diffraction……
light bending around an object
Airy diffraction….
10. PATHWAYS OF LIGHT……
EYEPIECE AND OBJECTIVE LENS – CONVEX LENSES
Converging lens…..
Focal point
focal length
POWER (diopters) = 1 / f
11. The real The magnified image….
image..
object
object f 2f
2f f IMAGE
IMAGE
12. Image formed by the microscope…..
Eyepiece
Objective
Image of Object (X1) Object (X)
Final image
(X2)
X1 – a real, inverted and bigger image
X2 – a magnified and virtual image
13. TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION
REFRACTION OF LIGHT AT A MEDIUM
BOUNDARY,ENOUGH TO SEND IT BACKWARDS AND
CAUSE EFFECTIVE REFLECTION OF THE LIGHT
Refraction at
medium
boundary
14. THE EVANESCENT WAVE
• EVANESCENT = “tending to vanish”
• DECAYS EXPONENTIALLY WITH DISTANCE
• RADIATION PRESSURE TO ILLUMINATE SMALL OBJECTS
• Selective excitation of fluorophores
16. FOCUS , CONFOCAL AND PARFOCAL
FOCUS –
• point of convergence
CONFOCAL - "having the same focus."
PARFOCAL – “having the same focus in the entire
range of magnifications”
18. MICROSCOPES IN DENTAL RESEARCH
• LIGHT MICROSCOPE
• PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPE
• STEREOMICROSCOPE
• TOOLMAKER’S MICROSCOPE
• FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPE
• TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION MICROSCOPE
• ELECTRON MICROSCOPE
scanning electron microscope
• field emission scanning electron microscope
transmission electron microscope
• CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE
• SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPES
atomic force microscope
scanning tunneling microscope
• X-RAY MICROSCOPE
19. LIGHT MICROSCOPE
• The simplest form of
microscope
eyepiece
• Types based on
illumination – bright, dark,
objective
rheinberg, phase contrast,
differential interference,
Hoffman modulation, sample
polarised, fluorescence
stage
condenser
• 0.5 – 1mm thin specimen
• Image formation due to
source of illumination
absorption of light by objects in
the path
23. Illumination and other aspects
Sources of illumination:
– Episcopic and diascopic illumination
– Fluorescence illumination
– LED
(Chambers and Nothnagle – Microscopy and microanalysis – 1997)
Total magnification : 2x to 540x
Resolution : 1.6 µm
27. Total internal reflection
microscope
• Main disadvantage of
fluorescence microscope –
background fluorescence
• Evanescent wave
• 200 nm depth
• Cell adhesion
28. ELECTRON MICROSCOPE
• Development of the electron
microscope
• Energy of the electrons – 1 KeV to 1
MeV.
• Types
• Gold standard in dental research….?
29. • TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPE – Max Knoll and Ernst Ruska
(1931)- (Nobel prize 1986)
•SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE – Zworikyn -1942
• USES
– Topographical imaging
– Morphology imaging
– Substructure analysis
– Crystallography
– Chemical composition
30. BASIC
PRINCIPLES
Electron source (or) the gun – 5 – 50 KV
energy electrons
ELECTRON DENSE
ELECTRON TRANSLUCENT
ELECTRON TRANSPARENT
31. Electron optics
• Electron beam
trajectory –
electrostatic lenses
(in the electron gun)
and magnetic lenses
• Double deflection
scanning
(A.W. Crew – Science – 1961)
34. Specimen preparation for scanning electron
microscopy
Fixation of specimen
Dehydrate and embed in resin
Section and Stain
Gold / Platinum sputtering
(Weimer and Martin – 13th International Congress on Electron Microscopy – 1974)
35. SPUTTER
COATER
• Why sputter coat ?
• Thickness….
• Materials used and method….
• In all forms of SEM ??
36. FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON
MICROSCOPY - Erwin Müller (1936)
• Materials science and bio-sciences
• metal tip in a low vacuum chamber
• Emitter gun – fine wire cathode and
concave anode with a hole in the centre
• Variation of atomic orientation in emitter tip
• Sputtering….
• Resolution 20 Å
• Magnification 50,000 X
38. Specimen preparation for Transmission electron microscopy
( Auvert – Microscopy and Microanalysis – 2003)
Method 1
• Thickness – 500 nm (or) lesser
• Fix in plastic (or) isolate and study as solution.
• Spread on a support grid coated with plastic.
• Heavy metal salt solution -stains -"shadow"
around the specimen .
•Negative picture
39. Method 2
Pre – thinning of samples to 100 – 150 µm
Polishing
Platinum deposition (standard replica technique)
Replication for bulk samples
44. A modification…..
The real time tandem scanning microscope
(Nipkow disc scanning confocal microscopy)
(Watson and Wilson – Journal of microscopy – February 2002)
• Nipkow disc – rapid
scanning
• Advantage – laser /
fluorescence / non
coherent light (xenon arc) ,
direct and safe visualisation
(Mc cabe and Hewlett-Applied
optics – January 1998)
• No unwanted back
reflections
45. Specimen preparation for confocal
microscopy
Fixation (30 minutes , paraformaldehyde)
Fluorophore labelling
Elevation of coverslip
(Immunocytochemistry – Polak and Noordan)
specimen
specimen
46. PROS AND CONS
• Thin optical sections (0.5 – 1.5 • Harmful nature of high
µm) intensity lasers
• Image formation restricted to a •Laser lines – excitation
well defined plane wavelength
• Improved contrast and definition • Zoom factor – low
• Multi dimensional view scanning rate
• 1.2 nm resolution • High cost
47. ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPE
(Scanning force microscope)
• Binning, Quate and Gerber – 1986
• Imaging at nanoscale
• Abrasion, adhesion, etching, corrosion, friction and
polishing
48. Working principle
• Probe in the end of a cantilever
• Flexion of cantilever
• Measurement of changes in bending
of cantilever by measuring difference
A-B ( by Hooke’s law)
49. Modes of operation and other aspects
• Working modes may be in air (or) vacuum
• Tip – sample interaction
– Contact mode
– Non contact mode
– Tapping mode
– Lift mode
• Non destructive imaging is possible (E.Meyer – Microscopy
and science – 1992)
• Resolutions :
– Vertical : 0.1 Å
– Lateral : 30 Å
50. Pros and Cons
• Three dimensional surface • Image size – area of
profile
only 100 µm X 100
• No special treatment for the µm
sample - 8” diameter and 0.5” • Slow scanning rate
thick . (Zhong and Innis – Surface Science – 1993)
• Ambient and liquid
environment
• Very good resolution
51. SCANNING TUNNELING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
( STEM)
Binning and Roehrer –
1981….(Nobel Prize -1986)
Scanning technique within a
transmission arrangement
Substrates – extremely flat
- gold / platinum coating
Operated in vacuum
Vertical resolution : 0.1Å,
lateral resolution : 1Å
Chemical analysis,
topography
52. X - RAY MICROSCOPY
• Kirkpatrick and Baez
• Electromagnetic radiation in the X-ray band
• Do not reflect (or) refract easily
• Charged coupled device (or) a film to detect the X
rays that pass through the specimen
• Solid – liquid interface analysis
(Kaukler et al – NASA materials division research journal – 1999)
54. SUCCESSFUL RESEARCH.…
CHOICE OF MICROSCOPES…….
• WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SEE ?
• WHAT IS YOUR SPECIMEN SIZE ?
• WHAT RESOLUTION DO YOU NEED ?
• HOW MUCH ARE YOU READY TO SPEND ??!!
55. FEATURES LIGHT SEM TEM CONFOCAL
MICROSCOPE MICROSCOPE
SPECIMEN 0.1 – 0.5 mm Not specific….. To be less than No specification
THICKNESS Ideally upto 3 cm 500 nm
thick specimen
RESOLUTION 200 nm 5 – 10 nm 0.1 – 0.2 nm 1.2 nm
MAXIMUM Upto 2000 x, fixed Can be increased Can be increased 60 x
MAGNIFICATION magnification upto 60,000 x upto 70,000 x
MAIN USES IN Topography Topography, Same as SEM Topography,
DENTAL ARENA morphology, morphology,
chemical analysis, substructure
substructure
analysis
MAJOR PROS Easy availability, Very good The best Easiest specimen
easy procedure, resolution resolution preparation,
economic good resolution
MAIN CONS Resolution Gold sputtering, Very thin sample Laser beam, Slow
limitation cost factor, only needed, only dead scanning rate,
dead cells cells Cost factor
Cost factor
57. FROM “LOUPES” TO
“SCOPES”…..
• A fascinating moment in dentistry !!!!........ A pinnacle of
technology…..
• First ever use of magnification and illumination in endodontics –
MAGNIFYING LOUPES (surgical telescopes) WITH FIBREOPTIC
HEADLAMP
• 1953 – Carl Zeiss company – binocular operating microscope
• 1981 – Dentiscope – first dental operating microscope
• 1993 – surgical operating microscope
• Microscope Assisted Precision Dentistry
58. SURGICAL OPERATING MICROSCOPE ….
ANATOMY
• body tube
• Eyepiece and binoculars
• Magnification changers and
power zoom changers
• Objective lenses – focal
lengths 100 – 400 mm
59. THE TRIFECTA …..
Magnify, illuminate and
instrument
• SURGICAL TELESCOPES : 2 – 3.5 x magnification
• AVAILABLE MAGNIFICATIONS…..
• HOW MUCH MAGNIFICATION DO WE REALLY
NEED….usable power..?
60. BASIC INFORMATION RELATING
MAGNIFICATION TO OTHER FACTORS…….
• f objective lens o magnification factor
- magnification
– ↓magnification -↓field of view
– field of view
– ↓illumination o power eyepiece
- magnification
-↓field of view
• f binoculars
– magnification o magnification - ↓depth of
field
– ↓ field of view
61. ILLUMINATION IN OPERATING MICROSCOPE
Light source
xenon halogen bulb
quartz halogen bulb
Path of light and the “stereoscopic effect”
The Beam splitter
“co axial” illumination – “GALILEAN OPTICS”
69. To conclude…..
• Knowledge of physics of microscopes - essential to
choose microscopes for research
• Clinical practice with operating microscopes ….not a
fancy, but a necessity!