title: Electron microscopy as a tool for scientific illustrators.
abstract: Medical and biological illustrators can be aided in drawing small specimens by micrographs from the scanning (SEM) or transmission (TEM) electron microscope. These detailed photographs act as a reference because they show surface detail in exquisite resolution. To help the illustrator understand this tool, a functional explanation of the electron microscope is provided and techniques for application are presented.
mesh_terms: D000716:Anatomy, Artistic; D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D008488:Medical Illustration; D008854:Microscopy, Electron / Q000295:instrumentation; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning / Q000295:instrumentation; D010784:Photomicrography