Welcome to website
of
the 12th
annual workshop in Digital
Photomicrography
15 - 19 . Sept 2008
Karolinska Institute
Stockholm, Sweden
The workshop will take place at Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge
Download 2008 Course materials
Registration Form (electronic version)
Questions should be directed to Staffan Larsson, course manager at: staffan.larsson@ki.se
Overview
Photomicrography is a powerful tool that has been used for the documentation
and presentation of scientific information since its invention in the mid 1850's.
Making good photomicrographs can be easily learned with some basic approaches.
With advances in digital photo equipment happening monthly, there are now numerous
products for forming, capturing, processing, analyzing and measuring images.
This new technology often requires new knowledge and approaches.
Target population
The course has been developed for post-graduate students and researchers in
various felds of biomedical engineering who need practical knowledge of microscopy and imaging techniques and presentation in their work.
Read a featured article about the course from the Competence Science
newspaper August 2004
page one
page two
Course overview & registration fee
This five day course has a strong theoretical and hands-on component evenly
distributed over the week. Each day students are taken through hands on exercises
exploring:
- the optical components of compound microscope and their functions/operations
- the physics of light and glass
- forming and maintaining optical resolution with these lenses
- Proper(Kohler) bright field illumination
- fundamentals of photographic documentation required for image capture
- fundamentals of image processing and preparation for printing and integration
into
Powerpoint through the use of Adobe PhotoShop®
- other microscopy techniques such as fluorescence, dic, confocal, and phase are overviewed
Course fees and registration information:
The registration fee for the course is 5,900 SEK and 4,900 SEK for students.
The number of participants are limited to 18 participants.
Course Refunds
Full refund with cancellation made prior to one week before the course start
Less than one week, a cancellation fee of SEK 1.000 will be charged.
Pre-registration:
staffan.larsson@ki.se
The application form should be mailed to:
Staffan Larsson
KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET,
Department of Biosciences and Nutrition,
SE-141 57 Huddinge, Sweden.
Application deadline is 10 August 2008
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Objective
After completing the course, the participants will understand the fundamentals
of optical microscopy and be able to use
appropriate presentation methods for conveying to others the research results
in a clear and informative way. Multimedia software
as well as image processing software will be used including Adobe Photoshop®
and Microsoft PowerPoint® as well as
other digital microscopy software for image acquisition programs.
Course Content
The course will include theory and practice investigating conventional-light
microscopy,
darkfield, ultraviolet fluorescence, phasecontrast, interference (DIC).
Additionally, the course will dedicate 1 day to Confocal microscopy and Analyzing
and Measurement Data Processing through
an excellent lecture and demonstration sessions.
Following the mastery of microscopy, the course explores fundamentals of digital
photography. The participants will be
exposed to digital cameras and their proper operation. Video and still digital
cameras are overviewed relative to application needs.
Relevant issues such as capture, processing, transmission and storage concerns
are explored.
Participants work with popular image editing software’s such as Adobe
PhotoShop® and Microsoft
PowerPoint®. Exercises have been created to learn image-processing imperatives
such as file resolution and
type, adjusting of tones and contrast, as well as composition.
Course syllabus
1 - Problems in magnification photography
2 - Magnification as a subject
3 - The Light Microscope & its Parts
4 - Illumination and Aperture Diaphragm
5 - Digital imaging and Magnification Photography
6 - Identifying good photomicrographs
7 - Proper exposure determination
8 - Proper handling of colour in digital images
9 - Contrast, saturation, grey balance, unsharp mask
10 - Considerations for Black & White digital photomicrography
11 - Evaluating Colour images for projecting or printing applications
12 - Contrast producing techniques : phase contrast, dark field, DIC and fluorescence
13 - Video Microscopy
14 - Confocal Microscopy
15 - Measurement Data Processing
16 - Trends in Electronic Photomicrography
17 - Printing techniques and quality
18 - Preparing digital images in Adobe Photoshop
19 - Trouble Shooting in electronic imaging & output
20 - Problems in Photomicrography
21 - Presentations using PowerPoint
Course Sponsor
TEKNO OPTIK supports this course with microscopes,
imagining equipment and their professional staff.
www.teknooptik.se
View
pictures from 2004 workshop
For more information & course manager:
Staffan Larsson
Special Adviser in Biomedical Imaging
Karolinska Institute
cell phone: +46 70 319 3353
Fax: +46 8 774 6833.
E-mail: staffan.larsson@ki.se
Course Organizers and faculty:
Course faculty:
Professor Michael Peres
Biomedical Photographic Communications
Rochester Institute of Technology, USA.
E-mail: mrppph@rit.edu
http://people.rit.edu/mrppph/
Scientific Coordinator:
Professor Lennart Möller
Biosicence at Karolinska Institutet
Huddinge.
E-mail: lennart.moller@ki.se
Course Assistants:
Jonas Brane
Biomed and Technical Photographer
Scanphot, Mölle.
E-post: scanphoth@algonet.se
Confocal microscopy faculty
Professor Hjalmar Brismar
Cellphysics
Royal Institute of Technology/Karolinska Institutet
E-mail: hjalmar@cellphysics.kth.se
