"Microscopy" is a descriptor in the National Library of
Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical
Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical
structure, which enables searching at various levels of
specificity. The use of instrumentation and techniques for
visualizing material and details that cannot be seen by the
unaided eye. It is usually done by enlarging images, transmitted
by light or electron beams, with optical or magnetic lenses that
magnify the entire image field. With scanning microscopy, images
are generated by collecting output from the specimen in a point-
by-point fashion, on a magnified scale, as it is scanned by a
narrow beam of light or electrons, a laser, a conductive probe,
or a topographical probe. Below are MeSH descriptors whose
meaning is more general than "Microscopy". Below are MeSH
descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Microscopy".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about
"Microscopy" by people in Harvard Catalyst Pr