Microscopy and Imaging Course: BT607 / BM607

Jayesh Bellare jb[AT]iitb.ac.in

• Basics of images and their characteristics
• The human eye and its characteristics
• Other detectors for sensing and recording images
• Lenses and optics
• Basic principles of image formation (how light works)
• Types of microscopes and their construction
• Function of a modern research microscope
• Resolution and how to improve it
• Contrast and how to get it: bright field, dark field, phase, DIC, fluorescence
• Resolution and how to improve it
• Confocal principle and how it is implemented in a modern microscope
• Learn to see the "invisible" by hands-on experiments in the lab