| Author | Message | ||
     hlmark |
Years and years ago, when I was a teenager (if anyone can imagine such a thing!), I got my first microscope. That impelled me to take books out from the public library about microscopes and learn about them. Some of these were elementary and some were pretty advanced, for professional microscopists; and since I didn't know what I was doing, I didn't know what books were which, so I just read indiscriminately. The advanced books, however, included disucssions of topics such as taking pictures through a microscope, among other advanced activities. For that, they used the word: "photomicroscopy". One book, indeed, additionally discussed the topic of "microphotography" which was the activity of taking pictures through very, very tiny microscopes using very, very tiny cameras. So by analogy, the act of measuring spectra through a microscope should be called "spectromicroscopy" (a term not yet brought up in this discussion), while "microspectroscopy" should describe the activity of measuring spectra through very, very tiny microscopes using very, very tiny spectrometers (I guess the Axsun unit would qualify!) Howard \o/ /_\ | ||
| Kathryn Lee |
Merriam-Webster on line only has a definition for microscopy (not microspectroscopy), which is "the use of or investigation with the microscope." That seems to fit. By analogy, though, that would imply that microspectroscopy would be, "the use of or investigation with the microspectroscope." Common usage is spectrometer, rather than spectroscope, so that would be a microspectrometer. Since the spectrometer is not quite micro (yet), but has a microscope attached, perhaps microscopy is better than microspectroscopy. Also, the spectra are not typically micro. Then there is microspectroscopist to consider, but all of the spectroscopists I know are pretty much normal size. Kathryn | ||
| hlmark |
Christina - strictly speaking, there SHOULD be a difference, but I suspect it's more likely a matter of careless usage, and people are using the terms synonymously Howard \o/ /_\ | ||
| Christina Timofeyenko (Ctimofeyenko) |
When looking up this topic I have seen both IR Microscopy and IR Microspectroscopy. Does anyone know the difference or are they just different names for the same thing? Thanks. | ||
| Dennis Pliutau |
I am not occupied with NIR microscopy myself but the introductory article from "Spectroscopy Europe" may be of some help to you. http://www.spectroscopyeurope.com/NIR_14_3.pdf | ||
| Christina Timofeyenko (Ctimofeyenko) |
I was wondering if anyone is familiar with NIR (or IR) microscopy. I am thinking of giving a student seminar on this topic and was wondering where I could find some useful resources as well as journal article applications. |