Hypodermic needle with red blood cells under an electron microscope
Hypodermic needle with red blood cells under an electron microscope
The colors are added in, of course, with it being an electron microscope image. Another picture:
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Thank you for the caption. My fist thought was “how did they take this photo in color?!?”
I actually thought optical microscopy worked just fine at this scale.
I know it's not the case for this photo, but if a 7 μm red bloodcell is reflecting red light (700nm, aka 0.7μm) under a bright white light, wouldn't the smallest discernable detail of the red blood cells be about a 10th of its width? Is that not roughly the detail we have in this image?
I'm making an assumption that the distance between discernable parts roughly parallels the wavelength's width. I could be wrong tho